Intervention on behalf of the young Ethiopian womanCLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION
An Open Email to The AmirCanadian citizens of Ethiopian origin, Ethiopians with Permanent Resident status in Canada, and other concerned Canadians residing in the City of Winnipeg, the province of Manitoba, Canada In accordance with this Canadian tradition and because of the gravity of the circumstance and the very few days left for the court's verdict to be carried out and thus the life of Yeshiwork to be irretrievably lost, we have chosen to express our concern directly to you in an open email. Copies of this email have also been distributed to the leaders of Canada and other International authorities and to all the major news media in the world . It will also be posted over the Internet. A list of some of the personalities and news media to which a copy of this email is sent is included in the attachment to this email. The Mentally Sick Ethiopian Woman Must Be Saved From the Death SentencePRESS RELEASE The physical and mental torture they suffer are of a wide range: exposure to hunger; subjection to beatings; being denied earned wages; being forced to toil without sleep; being raped by employers; having parts of their body seared in boiling oil by wives of their employers; being grilled with hot iron; being thrown out of high-rise windows; being harassed by illegal brokers and the police; having their passports forcefully taken away; being robbed of their bodily organs while still alive; languishing in prisons for years on the pretext that they didn't have legal residence permits; and, as a result, being driven to despair and mental sickness and finally taking away their own lives. A Call for Urgent InterventionF.D.R.E. Office of the Government Spokesperson "
Yeshiwork, whose only crime is poverty, is recognized by her friends at home as a decent, friendly and harmless girl. Yeshiwork now stands accused of murder of her Filipino employer in Bahrain an act she committed out of desperation and in an abnormal state of mind with the execution of the death sentence passed by the Bahrain court, only weeks away.
" Let the girl be freeBy: Haileselassie Girmay Times are hard, EWLA Calls Meet On Yeshiwork's CaseThe Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa) A team of professionals from different organizations was set up yesterday to defend Yeshiwork Desta, an Ethiopian migrant worker sentenced to death in Bahrain at a meeting held in Ghion Hotel organized by EWLA. Campaign to stop execution of EthiopianBBC, Dec 18, 2000 A campaign is under way in Ethiopia on behalf of a migrant worker who's been sentenced to death in Bahrain for killing her employer. Ethiopian Diplomat discussed with Yeshiwork DestaEthiopia appeals to Bahrain to suspend death sentence passed on its nationalBBC Monitoring Service
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed that it has launched an appeal with the Bahrain government to suspend and re-examine death sentence passed over an Ethiopian woman accused of murdering her employer [a Philippine national].
Ethiopian girl on death row in BahrainBBC, Dec 12, 2000 The Ethiopian authorities are appealing to Bahrain to lift a death sentence against a 20-year-old Ethiopian maid accused of murdering her employer.
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