Vigil
Sunday, February 11 4:00 p.m.
Harvard Square
Holyoke Center
(near Au Bon Pain & the T-stop)
Cambridge, MA
Vigil for Ethiopia's Prisoners of Conscience with a focus on Professor Mesfin Woldemariam, Northeast Special Focus Case.
Seventy-six year old retired geography professor and prominent human rights defender, Professor Mesfin Wolde-Mariam, is being detained under harsh conditions and suffers from pneumonia. He is being held in connection with demonstrations against alleged fraud in the May 2005 elections in Ethiopia.
Sponsored by Ethiopian Americans in Massachusetts in cooperation with Amnesty International's Boston Local Group 151