Amnesty, CPJ urge Ethiopia to release arrested journalists
An Ethiopian man reads a newspaper in Addis Ababa. Amnesty International the Committee to Protect Journalists have called for investigations to reports that some journalists were violently assaulted by Ethiopian security men during arrest. PHOTO | EDUARDO SOTERAS | AFP
International rights organisations have urged Ethiopia to stop ‘arbitrarily arrests’ of journalists and to respect citizens’ right to peaceful protests.
The calls this week by Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) came after Ethiopian authorities arrested at least seven journalists in the latest crackdown following an anti-government protest in the country's Amhara region.
