{"id":276066,"date":"2019-05-14T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXmh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNS8xNC8yMDE5L2V0aGlvcGlhLXdhbnQtdG8tc3RvcC1oYXRlLXNwZWVjaC10dW5lLW91dC10aGUtdGFsa2luZy1oZWFkcy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:53:51","slug":"tadias-and-human-rights-watch-warned-that-criminalizing-hate-speech-alone-would-not-fix-ethiopias-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276066","title":{"rendered":"Tadias and Human Rights Watch warned that criminalizing hate speech alone would not fix Ethiopia\u2019s violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Tadias Magazine argued that diaspora talking heads who lecture about hate speech while insulting opponents are part of the problem, and it pointed readers to a Human Rights Watch briefing on Ethiopia\u2019s then-planned hate-speech law.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-597608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tadias and Human Rights Watch warned that criminalizing hate speech alone would not fix Ethiopia\u2019s violence\" \/>\n<p>HRW said dangerous speech online and offline had helped fuel ethnic conflict that displaced more than a million people in early 2018, and that any criminal ban had to be narrowly drawn because Ethiopian governments had long abused vague speech and anti-terror rules to silence dissent.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing called for public education, digital literacy, community self-regulation, clearer leadership against dangerous rhetoric, and stronger independent media spaces, instead of relying on one new criminal statute.<\/p>\n<p>As media and governance archive, the file remains useful whenever Abiy Ahmed\u2019s regime or later governments sell speech bans as the main answer to ethnic violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/05\/14\/2019\/ethiopia-want-to-stop-hate-speech-tune-out-the-talking-heads\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/02\/19\/tackling-hate-speech-ethiopia\">Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Want to Stop Hate Speech? Tune Out the Talking Heads&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineHere in the Diaspora it&#8217;s amusing to watch the hypocrisy of the self-promoting talking heads (our version of Fox pundits on steroids) lecturing the public about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":597608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19OG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276066"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754780,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276066\/revisions\/754780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}