Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the release of two Zone 9 Bloggers who were arrested along with four other bloggers and three journalists in April 2014 on incitement and terrorism charges. In what is ...
In an open letter addressed to the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, Civil Rights Defenders together with 40 other human rights organisations have called for the immediate release of all...
Ethiopian authorities must stop the use of anti-terror legislation to criminalise the legitimate work of journalists, bloggers and human rights defenders in Ethiopia, said East and Horn of Africa Huma...
The arrests of nine Ethiopian human rights defenders in Addis Ababa on 25 and 26 April is of serious concern. Six of the arrested human rights defenders belong to the bloggers group “Zone9″ and three ...
As recognition for his work promoting free expression in Ethiopia, Mesfin Negash, together with 40 other journalists and writers, has received the Hellman/Hammett award for 2012. The award is administ...
Mesfin Negash, Ehiopian journalist and human rights defender was found guilty of supporting terrorism by an Ethiopian court in the end of June. On 13 July the sentence was delivered – eight years in p...
The Ethiopian human rights defender and journalist Mesfin Negash was found guilty of supporting terrorism by an Ethiopian court on Wednesday. Mesfin was convicted in absentia together with 23 other jo...
One of Ethiopia’s very few independent journalists, Mesfin Negash was harrassed by the government to the limit that he had to go into exile. Today he lives in Sweden but continues to spread news about...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the conviction of the Swedish journalist Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson. The trial, and the Ethiopian terrorist legislation, reveal with terrifying clarity the lack ...
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