According to The Daily Journalist (an online news outlet), Ethiopian Journalist Woubshet Taye who is serving 14 years sentence in
Kality Prison in Addis Ababa, is being denied a Medical Treatment. Taye
is suffering from severe renal calculus (kidney stone).
Woubshet
Taye is among a number of journalists who have been prosecuted under
the anti-terrorism law in Ethiopia. He was imprisoned, and convicted
for his work as the deputy editor of the now-defunct weekly
newspaper, Awramaba Times.
Taye told to journalists, who were visiting the prisoners of conscience in
Kality a week ago, that although the doctors in the prison’s clinic
told him that his case was severe, he has been given no medical
treatment yet.
“They
told me that my case required urgent treatment in well
equipped hospital, but I have not yet been transferred to such a
hospital for unknown reason”, he explained. “They told me that
there was nothing to do for me. They are even not voluntary to give
me anti pain drugs.” he added.
