A freelance video journalist accredited to the Associated Press and two other local journalists have been detained in Ethiopia, according to police and the country’s media regulator.
The journalists could face seven to 15 years behind bars for violating Ethiopia’s state of emergency and antiterrorism law, federal police inspector Tesfaye Olani told state media.
However, some rights groups say press freedom has eroded since then as the government has faced outbreaks of deadly violence, including the conflict that broke out in the northern Tigray region in November 2020.
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