Mass arrests and beatings: how Ethiopia went from celebrating journalists to jailing them

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52% : " Most journalists now practise self-censorship, says the editor: "Many independent media just repeat government statements.
52% : " Tsedale Lemma, founder of Addis Standard, one of Ethiopia's leading independent media outlets, says the police and security services routinely flout legal protections for media workers.
51% : Hundreds of media workers have been detained, often on terror charges, or forced into exile by Abiy Ahmed's regime When Ethiopia was chosen by the United Nations to host the global celebrations for World Press Freedom Day in May 2019, it held a glitzy ceremony in the capital, Addis Ababa, attended by nearly 1,000 people.

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