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Ethiopian Govt Urged To Drop Terrorism Charge Against Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ethiopian authorities to drop terrorism charges against several journalists from a private radio station who were arrested after the airing of a documentary on March 23 in which a woman said she'd been abducted and raped by men in military uniform.

The government said the documentary was "fabricated" and intended to "incite conflict and threaten constitutional order". Following an apology from the station's management, the Ethiopian Media Authority suspended the program on which the documentary was aired.

But the CPJ has said, "arresting journalists on terrorism allegations is a disproportionate response to concerns over lapses in journalistic ethics".

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