Ethiopian authorities have arrested at least 14 journalists since declaring a state of emergency on November 2 as part of the government\u2019s response to a year-long civil war against rebel forces allied with the Tigray Peoples\u2019 Liberation Front (TPLF).<\/p>\n
Those detained include two former reporters at the Tigrigna-language radio service of the state-owned Ethiopia Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the editor-in-chief of the YouTube channel Ubuntu TV, an editor at the Terara Network, the co-founder of Roha TV, a freelance video journalist accredited with The Associated Press, a cameraperson, and a journalist with the state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation. CPJ previously documented the arrests of six other journalists under the state of emergency. […] CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ethiopian authorities have arrested at least 14 journalists since declaring a state of emergency on November 2 as part of the government\u2019s response to a year-long civil war against rebel forces allied with the Tigray Peoples\u2019 Liberation Front (TPLF). Those detained include two former reporters at the Tigrigna-language radio service of the state-owned Ethiopia Broadcasting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":381505,"comment_status":"open","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-381504","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\/12\/Meaza-Mohammed-45875.jpg?fit=1121%2C631&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1Bfi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381504","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381506,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381504\/revisions\/381506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}