Accused Ethiopian terrorist claims he was fighting torture

A university lecturer accused of flying out to an Ethiopian terrorist training camp has defended his role in an anti-government Ethiopian resistance. Tadesse Kersmo, 51, said his organisation Patriotic Ginbot 7 had a duty to help his people battle against torture and repression. Kersmo was arrested at Heathrow Airport in January with numerous military themed documents on his laptop and other devices. The Ethiopian national was a prominent critic of his country’s government before he fled to the UK in…