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https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/eskinder_Nega.Lennart_Kjorl.jpg400266It would be hard to find a better symbol of media repression in Africa than Eskinder Nega. The veteran Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger has been detained at least seven times by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government over the past two decades, and was put back in jail on September 14, 2011, after he published…