{"id":27753,"date":"2011-10-12T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27753"},"modified":"2011-10-12T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:02:55","slug":"ethiopia-zenawi-calls-jailed-swedish-journalists-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27753","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Zenawi calls jailed Swedish journalists terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ethiopia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Ethiopia\" target=\"_blank\">Ethiopian<\/a> Prime Minister Meles Zanawi <a title=\"CPJ - Zenawi calls jailed Swedish journalists terror accomplices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/10\/ethiopias-zenawi-calls-jailed-swedish-journalists.php\" target=\"_blank\">publicly accused<\/a> two imprisoned <a title=\"CPJ - Ethiopia terror charges against five journalists\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2011\/09\/in-ethiopia-terrorism-charges-against-five-journal.php\" target=\"_blank\">Swedish journalists<\/a> of being terrorists on Monday. In an interview\u00a0with Norwegian newspaper <a title=\"Aftenposten\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aftenposten<\/a>, Zenawi said Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye, of Sweden-based photo agency\u00a0Kontinent,\u00a0were accomplices to terrorists. &#8220;They are, at the very least, messenger boys of a terrorist organisation. They are not journalists,&#8221; the prime minister said. Persson and Schibbye <a title=\"Index on Censorship - TERRORISM CHARGES AGAINST FIVE JOURNALISTS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/09\/ethiopia-terrorism-charges-against-five-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\">were\u00a0arrested<\/a>\u00a0after they crossed with rebels of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) into Ogaden. Zanawi added:\u00a0&#8220;Why would a journalist be involved with a terrorist organisation and enter a country with that terrorist organisation, escorted by armed terrorists?&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zanawi publicly accused two imprisoned Swedish journalists of being terrorists on Monday. In an interview\u00a0with Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, Zenawi said Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye, of Sweden-based photo agency\u00a0Kontinent,\u00a0were accomplices to terrorists. &#8220;They are, at the very least, messenger boys of a terrorist organisation. They are not journalists,&#8221; the prime minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[7394,3894,727,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27757,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions\/27757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}