Amnesty International on Thursday called on the Ethiopian authorities to lift the blocking of access to several social networks, including Facebook, Telegram, TikTok, and Youtube, which have been inaccessible since February 9 in Ethiopia. "The Ethiopian authorities, for a month, have been preventing people in the country from accessing certain social networks," which "clearly violates the rights of citizens to freedom of expression and access to information," denounces in a statement the deputy regional director of Amnesty for Eastern and Southern Africa, Flavia Mwangovya. The web pages of Facebook, Telegram, TikTok, and Youtube or their mobile applications were still unavailable on Thursday in Ethiopia, AFP journalists noted. The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a censorship detection association, has noted the blocking of these social networks since February 9. The Ethiopian authorities have cut or restricted access to the Internet or to certain platforms several times in recent years.

Source: Ethiopian News March 09, 2023 17:52 UTC