Elias Kifle
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Elias Kifle is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Washington D.C.-based Ethiopian Review
Ethiopian Review
Ethiopian Review is an Ethiopian news and opinion journal. It was first launched in August 1944 and discontinued in November 1945.The first editor of the Ethiopian Review was William M. Steen. In 1945, David A. Talbot took over as editor....

, an English/Amharic language Ethiopian news and opinion journal that was launched in January 1991.

Kifle is known as one of the most vocal critics of the current government in Ethiopia. Kifle is also a member of Tegbar and has organized rallies and meetings around the world to protest the policies of the ruling party, the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
Tigrayan People's Liberation Front
The Tigrayan People's Liberation Front , known more commonly and sometimes pejoratively in Ethiopia as Woyane or Weyane is a political party in Ethiopia...

(also known as Woyane in Ethiopia).

In 2007, Kifle, along with a few other Ethiopian journal editors, has been charged in absentia of treason by Ethiopia's regime and sentenced to life in prison. According to government sources, an extradition request has been filed with the U.S. Government.

Ethiopian Review is blocked by the regime in Ethiopia from being accessed online in Ethiopia.

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