Addis Ababa: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release journalist Salsawit Baynesagn or bring her before a court in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement, CPJ said Salsawit was arrested following the publication of a video in which she commented on the recent attacks against Christian communities in the Arsi area of Ethiopia’s Oromia region. The organization cited information provided by her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CPJ said the failure to bring Salsawit before a court within 48 hours constitutes a violation of her rights and could have a chilling effect on journalists reporting on sensitive public issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the video, Salsawit criticized what she described as the government’s silence regarding the killings in Arsi. She argued that authorities either ignore the suffering of affected communities or provide inadequate explanations in response to public demands for security and accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The case comes amid broader concerns over press freedom and freedom of expression in Ethiopia. Local and international media rights organizations have repeatedly raised concerns about the detention of journalists, restrictions on independent media, and the shrinking space for critical reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ethiopian authorities have not publicly commented on CPJ’s latest statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Addis Ababa: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release journalist Salsawit Baynesagn or bring her before a court in accordance with the law. In a statement, CPJ said Salsawit was arrested following the publication of a video in which she commented on the recent attacks against Christian communities in the Arsi area of Ethiopia’s Oromia region. The organization cited information provided by her family. CPJ said the failure to bring Salsawit before a court within 48 hours constitutes a violation of her rights and could have a chilling effect on journalists reporting on sensitive public issues. In the video, Salsawit criticized what she described as the government’s silence regarding the killings in Arsi. She argued that authorities either ignore the suffering of affected communities or provide inadequate explanations in response to public demands for security and accountability. The case comes amid broader concerns over press freedom and freedom of expression in Ethiopia. Local and international media rights organizations have repeatedly raised concerns about the detention of journalists, restrictions on independent media, and the shrinking space for critical reporting. Ethiopian authorities have not publicly commented on CPJ’s latest statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[65,55,59],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-social","tag-cpj","tag-ethiopia","tag-press-freedom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornfrequency.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}