Picture: Screen grab/AdddisStandardAddis Abeba – Journalist, Meaza Mohammed, the co-founder and host at the YouTube based media outlet, Roha TV, is the latest journalist to have been detained by security forces this morning, Robel Tesfaye told Addis Standard. According to Robel,members of the federal police commission accompanied by security forces in civilian clothes took Meaza from a coworker’s house, where she spent the previous night. She was detained while on her way to work by plain clothed security forces in the first week of December last year. Her detention today brings the number of known journalists, commentators and media practitioners detained in a week’s time to 19. #Ethiopia: Detention of journalists and media personnel: Update!

Source: Ethiopian News May 28, 2022 20:04 UTC