Ethiopia is jailing journalists and crushing civil society activists. Why won’t the Obama administration speak up

In July 2012, an Ethiopian court charged the prominent journalist Eskinder Nega with conspiring to commit terrorist acts. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison under a broad and ill-defined law. His crime? Writing about the Arab Spring and calling for peaceful protests. A frequent critic of the government and a prominent journalist, Nega

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