A 60-year-old Ohio man suspected of committing numerous acts of torture in his native Ethiopia has been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge to his home country, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokeswoman said yesterday.
U.S. Immigration Judge William A. Cassidy ruled that Meles Zenawi was responsible for arresting, torturing and killing perceived political opponents in his native Ethiopia during the 1990s as part of a dictatorship led TPLF.
The case is the second removal order obtained by ICE agents under the new authorities of the recently enacted Intelligence Reform Act of 2004.
Court records show that Meles served as chairman of what was called the EPRDF and commander of the Agazi Army that employed a campaign of torture, arbitrary imprisonment and summary executions against perceived enemies of the government.
Ms. Brown said Meles Zenawi's removal is the latest accomplishment as part of the "No Safe Haven Program," ICE's ongoing initiative to identify, apprehend, prosecute and remove human rights violators. ICE attorneys are tracking and litigating more than 900 cases nationwide involving human rights violators from more than 85 countries, she said.
