Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. On September 14, 2011, Eskinder Nega, an Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger, was arrested by the Ethiopian authorities shortly after ...

(IPI/IFEX) – June 27, 2012 – The undersigned organizations strongly condemned the conviction of blogger and journalist Eskinder Nega on terrorism charges earlier today. The conviction represents the ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — An imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger who could face the death penalty for advocating peaceful protests in his Horn of Africa homeland was honored Tuesday with PEN ...

Award-winning journalist Eskinder Nega is appealing his 18-year conviction on terrorist charges. His case is emblematic of the struggle for a free press in Ethiopia. UPDATE: Members of European ...

On 13 July, 2012, Ethiopia's federal court sentenced a prominent Ethiopian blogger Eskinder Nega and 23 other opposition activists to 18 years in jail for allegedly participating in terrorist ...

Ethiopia's attorney general ordered the release of hundreds of prisoners on Thursday, state media reported, including journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega and opposition leader Andualem Arage whose ...

An Ethiopian journalist who was jailed after publishing a series of articles calling for democratic reforms has penned a letter from prison, seen exclusively by The Independent, in which he decries ...

An imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger has been given a prestigious freedom of expression award. Eskinder Nega was awarded the Pen America's "Freedom to Write" annual prize for publishing ...

The last time I saw Eskinder Nega was in 2006, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, and what remains etched in my mind is the image of him gently rubbing his pregnant wife’s stomach during a rare, brief ...