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Slate Articles ([info]slate) wrote,
@ 2015-05-21 21:12:00


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Aiding Repression

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/05/ethiopia_s_election_is_an_opportunity_for_reform_why_won_t_the_obama_administration.html

In July 2012, an Ethiopian court charged the prominent journalist Eskinder Nega with conspiring to commit terrorist acts. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison under a broad and ill-defined law. His crime? Writing about the Arab Spring and calling for peaceful protests.


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