Ethiopian scholar Dr Merera Gudina, former visiting fellow ASCL, released

The ASCL is thrilled and relieved that Dr Merera Gudina has been released from prison in Ethiopia. Dr Merera is a political scientist and chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress in Ethiopia, a legal opposition party. He was arrested on 1 December 2016. Dr Merera has been a visiting scholar to the African Studies Centre Leiden twice. We wish him a warm reunion with his family and loved ones. Read the ASCL's earlier pleas for his release.