Eskindir Nega
Tomorrow- December
19/2012, Eskindir Nega will present to Ethiopian Court. The Government accused
him as if he was terrorist. But the only act he did was to express his ideas.
Eskindir had awarded ‘’press freedom
award’’ from PEN America. He is a typical symbol of the current Ethiopian
generation that is facing lack of
freedom of expression. Today 16 members of European Union representatives have
signed a petition and sent a requisition letter to Ethiopian Government to
release Eskindir without any pre-condition.
New York Times on May 2,2012 states about Eskindir:-
''Mr.Eskindir Nega has stood by his writing and maintained his
right to publish. His defiant stance in defense of human rights in
Ethiopia earned him a prestigious press freedom award from PEN America in what the literary nonprofit
organization said was both recognition of his past work and an attempt to
pressure the Ethiopian government into halting its prosecution of
journalists.''(http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/world/africa/eskinder-nega-ethiopian-journalist-honored-by-pen.html?_r=0)
WHO IS ESKINDIR NEGA? please open the link http://www.ethiopianreview.info/index/?p=2809
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