In Ethiopia, journalists are often presumed “guilty until proven innocent.” For his first column with Sampsonia Way, Chalachew Tadesse overviews the deterioration of Ethiopia’s press freedom.
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Human Rights Watch reports on the unlawful and unfounded arrests of journalists in Iran, including Jason Rezaian who is a correspondent forThe Washington Post.
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Hamdy el-Gazzar highlights the Egyptian intellectual response to the arrests of twenty-four activists who were charged with “breaking the law of demonstrating, damaging public and private property and demonstrating power…”
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Tienchi Martin-Liao recounts this year’s June 4 vigil in Hong Kong and she counters the vacillation of a journalist who is seemingly “kowtowing to his patron”, the Chinese Communist Party.
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