Ethiopia - Anti-terror law denounced as a serious challenge for the media, a journalist named in WikiLeaks cable flees abroad

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today for the safety of Ethiopia's journalists after a long-time government critic was arrested along with four opposition party members on 15 September in Addis Ababa, becoming the latest in a series of local and foreign reporters to be held on "terrorism" charges. Ethiopia's 2009 “anti-terrorist” law has today become “the most serious challenge for the country's journalists," secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said, “and the arrests and other (...)

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