Press freedom

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Principal country concerned : Column : Media
Release/publication date : August 2008
Published on : 28/08/2008
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Reporters Without Borders has learned the good news that Amare Aregawi, the editor of the privately-owned Amharic-language weekly Reporter, was released yesterday evening.


The press freedom organisation calls on the Ethiopian government to amend the newly-adopted media law in order to eliminate prison sentences for press offences. It also urges the Ethiopian courts to ensure that the law is strictly respected, and thereby guarantee the rights of citizens.


Amare was released in the northern city of Gondar (750 km north of the capital) after paying bail of 300 birr (23 euros). Journalists in Addis Ababa told Reporters Without Borders they believed he was on his way back to the capital.

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