Index on Censorship » Somali rebel group 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 » Somali rebel group http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Ethiopia pardons jailed Swedish journalists http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/09/ethiopia-pardons-jailed-swedish-journalists/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/09/ethiopia-pardons-jailed-swedish-journalists/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:09:01 +0000 Daisy Williams http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=39666 Ethiopia has pardoned two Swedish journalists charged with supporting terrorism and will release them soon, a government source said on Monday. Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were sentenced to 11 years in prison in October 2011, after illegally entering the country with ethnic  rebel group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front. The chairman of the Swedish [...]

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]]> pardoned two Swedish journalists charged with supporting terrorism and will release them soon, a government source said on Monday. Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were sentenced to 11 years in prison in October 2011, after illegally entering the country with ethnic  rebel group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front. The chairman of the Swedish Union of Journalists, Jonas Nordling, said that the sentence aimed to deter journalists from investigating alleged human rights abuses in the Ogaden region, adding there was no evidence to support the pair’s conviction on terror charges.

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