Ethiopia: Reporting on Abuses Shouldn't Be Treated as Threat to National Interest
[IPS] CIVICUS discusses renewed conflict and a growing crackdown on independent media in Ethiopia with Yonas Kedir, Editor-in-Chief of the independent news outlet Addis Standard, who was recently abducted and detained by government forces.
CIVICUS spoke with Yonas Kedir, editor-in-chief of the independent Ethiopian outlet Addis Standard, about renewed conflict and a crackdown on independent media in Ethiopia. Kedir was recently abducted and detained by government forces.
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