Ethiopia: Authorities Arrest Addis Standard Editor Medihane Ekubamichael

Nairobi — Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release journalist Medihane Ekubamichael, and stop detaining members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

On November 7, federal police arrested Medihane, an editor at the privately owned news website Addis Standard, at his home in Addis Ababa, the capital, and the following day confiscated his identification documents and laptop, according to reports by his employer and Tsedale Lemma, the publication's editor-in-chief, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app.

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