{"id":276853,"date":"2019-05-03T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMihAFodHRwczovL3d3dy5hbW5lc3R5Lm9yZy9lbi9sYXRlc3QvbmV3cy8yMDE5LzA1L29wZWQtZXRoaW9waWEtZnJhZ2lsZS1uZXctZm91bmQtcHJlc3MtZnJlZWRvbS1tdXN0LWJlLWJ1dHRyZXNzZWQtaW4tbGF3LWFuZC1wcmFjdGljZS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:09","slug":"amnesty-ethiopias-fragile-press-freedom-needed-law-not-only-applause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276853","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty: Ethiopia\u2019s fragile press freedom needed law, not only applause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amnesty: Ethiopia\u2019s fragile press freedom needed law, not only applause\" \/>\n<p>Amnesty\u2019s op-ed sat beside CPJ\u2019s field notes: freer streets, unfinished legal architecture, and a looming hate-speech debate that could become a new muzzle.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>As media-rights archive, Amnesty\u2019s warning remains the sharper twin of the CPJ report. Applause is not a press law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/05\/oped-ethiopia-fragile-new-found-press-freedom-must-be-buttressed-in-law-and-practice\/\">Amnesty International<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPED Ethiopia: Fragile new-found press freedom must be buttressed in law and practice&nbsp;&nbsp;Amnesty InternationalAhead of this year&#8217;s World Press Freedom Day, the Ethiopian authorities must do more to ensure press freedom is entrenched both in pra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"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-276853","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\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a1n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276853","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=276853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602516,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276853\/revisions\/602516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}