Committee to Protect Journalists (New York)
4 November 2008
An Ethiopian Federal High Court judge convicted an editor today on criminal charges of "inciting the public through false rumors" over a reporting mistake, local journalists told CPJ. Editor-in-chief Tsion Girma of the private weekly "Enbilta" is being held in Kality prison, outside the capital, Addis Ababa, pending sentencing on Tuesday.
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