Magazine issue seized, its editor and others imprisoned- May 19, 2008 (EFJAIFEX) - In a move that is widely believed to have been deliberately chosen to coincide with World Press Freedom Day, the Ethiopian government struck against the private press on 3 May 2008. This development is part of a slide toward naked tyranny, following the brutal crackdown after the 2005 election.Ten thousand copies of a non-political monthly magazine, "Enku", have been impounded by police and the publisher and deputy editor of the magazine, Alemayehu Mahtemework, imprisoned. The...http://ethiounited.blogspot.com/2008/05/magazine-issue-seized-its-editor-and.html |