An Ethiopian court sentenced five people to death _ including an Ethiopian professor teaching at a U.S. university _ and 33 to life in prison for being members of a terrorist group and conspiring to assassinate government officials.
Those convicted have been accused of being members of the Ginbot 7 _ May 15 in the Ethiopian calendar _ which refers to Ethiopia's election day in 2005 when postelection violence killed close to 200 people.
Among those sentenced to death Tuesday was Berhanu Nega, an exiled opposition leader who was elected mayor of Addis Ababa in 2005. But Berhanu, currently an associate professor of economics at Bucknell University in …
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