Ahead of World Press Freedom Day 2019, Amnesty International argued that Ethiopian authorities had to entrench the new opening in both practice and statute, not treat released journalists as a completed reform checklist.
Amnesty’s op-ed sat beside CPJ’s field notes: freer streets, unfinished legal architecture, and a looming hate-speech debate that could become a new muzzle.
Abiy Ahmed’s government collected international compliments for unblocking websites and welcoming exiles. Rights groups kept asking what happens when the compliments end and the security services still write drafts.
As media-rights archive, Amnesty’s warning remains the sharper twin of the CPJ report. Applause is not a press law.
Sources: Amnesty International