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News: Record number of jailed journalists for second year, CPJ census finds
Turkey, China, Egypt continue to top list New York, December 13, 2017 -For the second year in a row,…
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News: Ethiopia supreme court reduces jail terms of Ethiopian Muslims including two journalists who were sentenced on terrorism charges
Etenesh Abera Addis Abeba, December 11/2017 – The Ethiopian federal supreme court has today reduced the jail terms of…
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News: Deprived of a day in court, detained Ethiopian journalists reach out to UN’s chief in a letter
Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, Feb. 02/2017 – Deprived of their day in a court of law, journalists Elias Gebru and…
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White House ‘deeply concerned’ by Ethiopia’s arrest of journalists, but fails to mention massive crackdowns against Oromo protestors
In a statement by the US National Security Council Spokesperson Ned Price the White House said it was “deeply concerned”…
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BREAKING – Ethiopia drops charges against three journalists, two bloggers
By Mahlet Fasil After a year and three months since they were first detained by the police, charges were…
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Ethiopia formally charges bloggers, journalists with terrorism as confusion surrounds the process
Ethiopian Prosecutors have today formally charged six members of the blog Zone9 and three independent journalists detained nearly three months…
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Judge tells police to bring charges against Ethiopian bloggers, journalists
Mahelt Fasil A judge at the Arada First Instance Court, First Bench, told the police this morning to finalize its…
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Court grants the police twenty eight more days in the case against Ethiopian journalists, bloggers
Detainees to be charged with Ethiopia’s infamous Anti-Terrorism proclamation Mahelt Fasil A court in Addis Abeba has today granted…
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Police given ten more days to investigate Ethiopian journalists, bloggers under custody
Mahlet Fasil A court in Addis Abeba today granted the police investigating the case of three independent journalists and six…
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EU concerned over Ethiopia’s recent arrests of journalists, bloggers and opposition party members
A statement from the European External Action Service (EEAS), EU’s Foreign & Security Policy Service led by Catherine Ashton (pictured),…
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