The independent Committee to Protect Journalists and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission have condemned a swathe of arrests of journalists, including some sympathetic to the Amhara ethnic group. ManilaBulletin
In a statement the CPJ said "at least eight journalists" had been arrested since April 3, mainly in the capital Addis Ababa.
The arrests paint "a deeply depressing picture of the state of press freedom in the country," said Muthoki Mumo, CPJ’s sub-Saharan Africa representative, urging the reporters be released and that authorities investigate allegations of maltreatment. "When there is a case that they are suspected of crime and there is enough evidence, the arrests should be conducted in a careful manner and only as per the law," the commission added, likewise calling for the journalists' release.
The move, which Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed justified as being designed to underpin multi-ethnic Ethiopia's "unity", sparked several days of public demonstrations in the Amhara region earlier this month.
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