Committee to Protect Journalists - Sweden tag:cpj.org,2008-09-16://1 2012-09-11T21:41:43Z Movable Type 4.38 Ethiopia should release journalists still in prison tag:cpj.org,2012://1.20380 2012-09-11T21:13:48Z 2012-09-11T21:41:43Z Nairobi, September 11, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Ethiopian government to set free six journalists in prison for their work, a day after Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were pardoned and released from Kality Prison in the capital Addis Ababa.... Committee to Protect Journalists Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye appear on state television. (ETV/YouTube)

Nairobi, September 11, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Ethiopian government to set free six journalists in prison for their work, a day after Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were pardoned and released from Kality Prison in the capital Addis Ababa.

]]> CPJ condemns trial of Swedish journalists in Ethiopia tag:cpj.org,2011://1.18259 2011-12-21T20:40:42Z 2011-12-21T20:54:45Z New York, December 21, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Ethiopian court's decision to convict two Swedish photojournalists today in what appears to be a politicized trial.... Committee to Protect Journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson could be sentenced to up to 18 years. (Reuters)

New York, December 21, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Ethiopian court's decision to convict two Swedish photojournalists today in what appears to be a politicized trial.

]]> Release Swedish journalists immediately tag:cpj.org,2011://1.17571 2011-07-07T19:08:05Z 2011-07-07T19:19:14Z New York, July 7, 2011--Following Ethiopian state television's broadcast of a clip presenting jailed and injured Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye as accomplices to terrorists, the Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopia to immediately release the two journalists.... Committee to Protect Journalists clip presenting jailed and injured Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye as accomplices to terrorists, the Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ethiopia to immediately release the two journalists. ]]> Ethiopia detains two Swedish journalists tag:cpj.org,2011://1.17559 2011-07-05T21:32:08Z 2011-07-05T21:40:55Z Committee to Protect Journalists Persson (Kontinent)

New York, July 5, 2011--Two Swedish journalists reporting on the activities of armed separatists operating in an oil-rich province of eastern Ethiopia have been detained without charge since Thursday in the Horn of Africa nation, according to news reports and government officials.

Ethiopian security forces arrested photojournalist Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye, contributors to the Sweden-based agency Kontinent, along the border with neighboring Somalia, government spokesman Bereket Simon told CPJ.

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