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 measures it involves provokes fear and uncertainty among the media.
"We understand that some of the Ethiopian media have indeed been extremely virulent and some journalists have pushed things to th
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