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The world must not forget the jailed journalists of Ethiopia ı Amnesty International

10th December 2015 by Admin

Eskinder Nega

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/12/op-ed-the-world-must-not-forget-the-jailed-journalists-of-ethiopia/

By Michelle Kagari and Nani Jansen, 10 December 2015, 14:18 UTC

Today, on International Human Rights Day, the Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega, who was convicted on trumped up terrorism charges, will have spent more than four years in jail. Eskinder is just one of many Ethiopian journalists currently languishing behind bars, merely for doing their job. But unlike other journalists incarcerated on spurious terrorism charges such as the Al-Jazeera journalists freed from Egyptian prison earlier this year, the plight of jailed journalists in Ethiopia attracts little attention from the international community and the media. [Read more…]

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