Index on Censorship » Reeyot Alemu http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Fri, 17 May 2013 16:22:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Reeyot Alemu http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Ethiopia: Journalists and blogger convicted of terrorism http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/ethiopia-bloggers-journalists-terrorism/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/ethiopia-bloggers-journalists-terrorism/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:51:13 +0000 Marta Cooper http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=32233 Two journalists and a US-based blogger (tried in absentia), were convicted on charges of terrorism in Addis Ababa yesterday. They may face the death penalty. Reeyot Alemu, a columnist with the independent weekly Feteh, deputy editor Woubshet Taye of the now-defunct weekly Awramba Times, and Elias Kifle, exiled editor of the Washington-based opposition website Ethiopian Review, were [...]

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]]> convicted on charges of terrorism in Addis Ababa yesterday. They may face the death penalty. Reeyot Alemu, a columnist with the independent weekly Feteh, deputy editor Woubshet Taye of the now-defunct weekly Awramba Times, and Elias Kifle, exiled editor of the Washington-based opposition website Ethiopian Review, were charged with lending support to an underground network of outlawed opposition groups.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/01/ethiopia-bloggers-journalists-terrorism/feed/ 3 Ethiopia: Sentence extended for detained journalists http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/08/ethiopia-sentence-extended-for-detained-journalists/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/08/ethiopia-sentence-extended-for-detained-journalists/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:36:00 +0000 Sara Yasin http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=25506 On July 17, an Ethiopian court ruled that two journalists would remain imprisoned for an additional 28 days, without access to legal counsel or charge. Woubshet Taye, from Awramba Times and Reeyot Alemu, from the Feteh newspaper, were initially detained on June 19 and 21 respectively. The journalists were charged with “conspiracy to commit terrorism”, under the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, [...]

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]]> Ethiopian court ruled that two journalists would remain imprisoned for an additional 28 days, without access to legal counsel or charge. Woubshet Taye, from Awramba Times and Reeyot Alemu, from the Feteh newspaper, were initially detained on June 19 and 21 respectively. The journalists were charged with “conspiracy to commit terrorism”, under the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, adopted in 2009. In addition to Taye and Alemu, government officials accused members of the opposition party and five other individuals of the same violations.

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