Analysis - The Nobel laureate won plaudits early on for releasing imprisoned journalists. Today, his government depicts journalists as spies and traitors, and is accused of arresting, harassing and murdering them.
The Nobel laureate won plaudits early on for releasing imprisoned journalists. Today, his government depicts journalists as spies and traitors, and is accused of arresting, harassing and murdering them., the world commemorated the sacrifices of media workers around the world and celebrated the advances made to enshrine press freedoms and permit journalists to freely carry out their critical work.
Ethiopian Press Freedom Defenders has determined that over two hundred Ethiopian media personnel have endured unjust incarceration since 2019. Two have been murdered. In 2022, a private media house wasThe initial glimmer of hope that came with promises of political reform in 2018 has long since been extinguished. State authorities routinely violate constitutionally protected press freedoms and have rendered the working environment for Ethiopian media workers an extremely hostile one.
As such, persecuted journalists, and media workers across the country, lack an assertive, collective voice that is resolute and uncompromising on press freedom. The shortage of Ethiopian media freedom advocacy groups, the inability or unwillingness of other civic society organizations to maintain a robust stance on the issue, as well as the failure and co-optation of organisations with similarly stated initiatives, has left a void that Ethiopian Press Freedom Defenders strives to fill.
The Economist's Tom Gardner holds the record among the foreign press, with two arrests in 2021 prior to his deportation from Ethiopia in 2022.
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