Ethiopia sentenced three magazine owners in absentia to more than 3 years in prison

Reporters Without Borders They fled the country before the trial and were convicted in absentia Ethiopia’s federal supreme court yesterday sentenced three magazine owners in absentia to more than three years in prison on charges of “inciting violent revolts, printing and distributing unfounded rumours and conspiring to unlawfully abolish the constitutional system of the country.”

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Little to Celebrate in Ethiopia During World Press Freedom Day

VOA Marthe van der Wolf FILE – A man reads a newspaper as he walks along a street in Addis Ababa. Ethiopian journalists have little to celebrate during World Press Freedom day Friday, with the arrest last week of nine

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Ethiopia’s anti-terror law suppresses press freedom: Press TV

18 April 2014 Presstv.ir The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX), a continental body of African free expression organizations, condemned the 27-year sentence imposed by Ethiopia on veteran Somali journalist, Mohamed Aweys Mudey. Ethiopian prosecutors accused Mudey of having information

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