The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ethiopia to free two journalists that it said had been charged with “outrages against the constitution” and faced a possible death sentence. The journalists, who work for the social media-based broadcaster Oromia News Network, were arrested last November and charged on April 7 in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. The CPJ statement said the two journalists were expected to appear in court again on Tuesday after repeated adjournments. “Ethiopian authorities should… drop all charges against them, and stop targeting members of the press,” said the US-based non-profit CPJ. Since November 2020 the Ethiopian government has been fighting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which is allied with the Oromo Liberation Army, a breakaway faction from the OLF.

Source: Ethiopian News May 03, 2022 16:27 UTC