{"id":31485,"date":"2011-12-27T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T11:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31485"},"modified":"2012-01-03T13:50:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T13:50:46","slug":"ethiopia-sweden-johan-persson-martin-schibbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31485","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Swedish journalists jailed on terrorism charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ethiopian court has <a title=\"Guardian - Ethiopia jails Swedish journalists on terrorism charges \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/dec\/27\/ethiopia-jails-swedish-journalists-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison<\/a> on charges of supporting terrorism after the pair illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group.<\/p>\n<p>Photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye were <a title=\"CPJ - Ethiopia detains two Swedish journalists \" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2011\/07\/ethiopia-detains-two-swedish-journalists.php\" target=\"_blank\">detained by Ethiopian security forces in July<\/a> while travelling with the outlawed separatist group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front, and were put on\u00a0<a title=\"Guardian - Swedish journalists accused of terrorism face trial in Ethiopia \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/oct\/19\/swedish-journalists-terrorism-trial-ethiopia\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0trial in October<\/a>. The chairman of the Swedish Union of Journalists, Jonas Nordling, <a title=\"Guardian - Ethiopia jails Swedish journalists on terrorism charges \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/dec\/27\/ethiopia-jails-swedish-journalists-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\">has been reported as saying<\/a> that the sentence is aimed at deterring journalists from investigating alleged human rights abuses in the tense Ogaden region, adding that there is no evidence to support the pair&#8217;s conviction on terror charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ethiopian court has sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism after the pair illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group. Photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye were detained by Ethiopian security forces in July while travelling with the outlawed separatist group, the Ogaden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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":[7394,4127,4128,4126,727,507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31485"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31586,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485\/revisions\/31586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}