Eskinder Nega, Five Exiled Journalists Convicted of Terrorism

June 29, 2012

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Nairobi — Today’s self-assurance of 6 Ethiopian reporters on deceptive terrorism charges is an aspersion to a sequence of law and a structure in a Horn of Africa country, a Committee to Protect Journalists pronounced today. At slightest 11 reporters have been charged with terrorism given Nov 2011, according to CPJ research.

Ethiopia: Terrorism Law Used to Crush Free Speech

June 29, 2012

(Nairobi) – Ethiopian high justice on Jun 27, 2012, convicted 24 journalists, domestic antithesis leaders, and others underneath Ethiopia’s deeply injured anti-terrorism law, Human Rights Watch pronounced today.

The Ethiopian supervision should immediately dump all politically encouraged charges opposite a defendants and rectify a law’s many attribution provisions, that are being used to criminalize giveaway countenance and pacific dissent, Human Rights Watch said.

In a third high-profile “terrorism” verdict in a past 6 months, Eskinder Nega Fenta, an eccentric publisher and blogger, was one of 6 reporters convicted underneath a Anti-Terrorism Proclamation of 2009. Their sentencing is approaching on Jul 13.

Court Convicts 24 On Terrorism Charges

June 29, 2012

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Addis Ababa — An Ethiopian justice on Wednesday found 24 citizens, including a publisher and some members of domestic oppositions, guilty underneath a country’s argumentative 2009 terrorism law.

Among convicted were distinguished publisher and blogger Eskinder Nega, as good as Andualem Arage and Nathnael Mekonnen – both members of an antithesis group, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ).