Please join the Committee to Protect Journalists for a Q&A session with Edom Kassaye of the Zone 9 bloggers at Columbia Journalism School on January 26, 2017, from 12 to 2 pm. Along with four other bloggers from the Zone 9 collective, Kassaye was arrested and charged with incitement and terrorism in late April 2014. The charges were ultimately dropped, and Kassaye was released on July 8, 2015.
This event marks the launch of CPJ’s #FreeThePress campaign, intended to raise awareness and take action on the cases of 10 journalists around the world imprisoned on anti-state charges such as terrorism.
WHAT: Q&A with Edom Kassaye of Zone 9
WHEN: Thursday, January 26, 2017, from 12 to 2 pm.
WHERE: Pulitzer Hall The Brown Institute, Columbia Journalism School, New York