Soleyana S. Gebremichael Archives - Committee to Protect Journalists

Members of the Zone 9 blogging group. (Endalkachew H/Michael)

Ethiopia Supreme Court says two Zone 9 bloggers should face incitement charges

April 6, 2017 12:08 PM EDT

New York, April 6, 2017–Ethiopia’s Supreme Court today ruled that two bloggers from the Zone 9 collective, previously acquitted of terrorism charges, should be tried instead on charges of inciting violence through their writing. If convicted of the charge, Atnaf Berhane and Natnail Feleke would face a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, according to…

Heroines for Press Freedom

April 27, 2016 8:00 AM EDT

Late on the evening of September 16, 2000, 31-year-old Ukrainian investigative journalist Georgy Gongadze left a colleague’s house in Kiev and headed home to where his wife and young daughters awaited him. He never made it.

Ethiopia arrests second journalist in a week, summons Zone 9 bloggers

December 27, 2015 11:21 AM EST

Nairobi, December 27, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Ethiopia to release the editor-in-chief of Negere Ethiopia online newspaper, Getachew Shiferaw, who was arrested on Friday, according to news reports.

In Ethiopia, Zone 9 bloggers acquitted of terrorism charges

October 16, 2015 9:46 AM EDT

Nairobi, October 16, 2015–The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the acquittal by an Ethiopian court today of four Zone 9 bloggers charged with terrorism. Abel Wabella, Atnaf Berhane, and Natnail Feleke, jailed since April 2014, are scheduled to be released today, while exiled blogger Soleyana S. Gebremichael was acquitted in absentia, news reports said. A…