Mensen gisteren ontving ik een petitie van het Care2 team voor de onmiddellijke invrijheidstelling van hartspecialist Fikru Maru uit een Ethiopische gevangenis. Maru zet zich in voor zijn geboorteland Ethiopië, het land dat hij in 1975 ontvluchtte na de dood van Haile Selassie (volgens velen werd Selassie vermoord).
Maru vluchtte naar Zweden waar hij met succes afstudeerde in cardiologie.
Maru werd in 2010 op het vliegveld van Addis Abeba gearresteerd (toen Maru met apparatuur voor een o.a. door hem opgezette hartkliniek Ethiopië binnen was gekomen). Een jaar later liet men de aanklachten vallen en werd hij in vrijheid gesteld. Echter in 2013 werd hij opnieuw gearresteerd op verdenking van de eerdere aanklachten, sindsdien verzint het totaal gestoorde Ethiopische ‘justitiële apparaat’ de ene na de andere maffe aanklacht, waarop Maru langer kan worden vastgehouden,……
Fikru Maru moet onmiddellijk in vrijheid worden gesteld! Mensen lees ajb de tekst hieronder en teken de petitie, geeft het door!!
Demand
the Ethiopian government free the good Swedish heart doctor, Dr Fikru
Maru, immediately!
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van: Frank
Ashall, MD -
doelwit: Getachew
Ambaye, Attorney General, and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn,
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Dr
Fikru Maru is a 66-year-old Ethiopian-born Swedish heart doctor. In
1975 he fled the communist regime that recently had overthrown and
murdered Emperor Haile Selassie I. He went to medical school in
Sweden and became a cardiologist.
For
forty years, Dr. Fikru Maru was one of the top cardiologists in
Sweden. After fleeing a totalitarian regime in Ethiopia, he settled
in Sweden, where he attended medical school and devoted his life to
saving others. But
now, he could die inside an Ethiopian prison, after being arrested on
false charges.
Dr.
Maru has suffered from several pneumothoraxes recently, which is air
or gas that collects in the chest and can cause lung collapse. His
friends — including Frank Ashall, a fellow doctor and Care2 member
— are terrified that if he isn’t freed soon, they will lose him
permanently.
For
40 years, he practiced as one of Sweden’s top cardiologists (heart
doctors).
In
2007, he helped establish, and was CEO of, a heart hospital in
Ethiopia, his country of birth. He wanted to help bring high quality
medical care for people with heart problems to Ethiopia.
Then,
in 2010, his nightmare with Ethiopia’s appalling and flawed legal
system began, when he was arrested while trying to bring essential
medical supplies, needed for the new heart hospital, through Addis
Ababa’s airport.
A
year later, the charges were dropped, but in 2013 he was re-arrested
on what appears to be a politically motivated charge relating to the
previous one. With delay
after delay after delay of his court hearings, and after three years
in prison without being convicted of any crime,
he was finally convicted and given a 4 year 8 month jail sentence in
one of Ethiopia’s crowded, disease-infested prisons.
Then,
after four years in prison, in May, 2017, in a new court hearing, he
was cleared of all prior charges!
That means he spent four years suffering in prison for committing no
crime!
But
if the Ethiopian government wants you in jail, it will find a way to
keep you in jail.
So,
instead of releasing him from prison, the Ethiopian government has
now brought new charges against Dr Fikru, accusing
him, along with 37 other prisoners, of being involved in a prison
fire and revolt, even
though he was in hospital with a life-threatening condition when the
fire occured.
Please
watch the following video to see how Dr Fikru, whose health is
failing, barely gets the chance to hug his daughter. But be prepared
to weep:
https://www.facebook.com/579673202125332/videos/vb.579673202125332/1083455248413789/?type=2&theater
The
current oppressive Marxist-Leninist-inspired Ethiopian government has
a long history of delaying court cases and charging individuals with
non-existent and trumped-up crimes.
There
is no due legal process in Ethiopia,
because the judiciary
is controlled by the ruling political party and
its allies, which won
every parliamentary seat (547/547) in
the last (2015) election, through
harassment, banning, jailing and killing opposition party
members.
Enough
is enough with
the unconstitutional and politically motivated torture and treatment
of prisoners in Ethiopia! Thousands of indivuduals have
been jailed, tortured and killed by the regime, especially
those, incuding opposition political party leaders, who are opposed
to its political ideology.
The
international community and all good people — medical and otherwise
— must speak out for Dr Fikru, and against these atrocities, and
hold the Ethiopian government to account.
Please sign the petition, be his voice, and express your horror at the
plight of Dr Fikru Maru. Demand that the Ethiopian government
release, without delay, this humanitarian cardiologist, and allow him
to return to his family in Sweden. Please
also see:
Update
#1 6 dagen geleden:
Dear
supporters: Thank you for signing the petition to free cardiologist,
Dr Fikru Maru, unjustly in prison for over 4 years in Ethiopia. The
petition is gaining momentum, but many more signatures are needed
urgently. So please share the petition far and wide. By doing so, you
are not only helping to get more signatures, but also creating
awareness of tens of thousands of Ethiopia’s political prisoners who
are jailed, tortured and killed as we speak. Thank you. -Dr Frank
Ashall