EDITOR’S NOTE: This seems to be a drama orchestrated by Amare Aregawi’s own party, Woyanne. The company, Dashen Brewery, that sued Amare is owned by the ruling party, Woyanne. Even the car that transported him to Gondar is not a police car. He was taken bay a car owned by the company that sued him. But if any thing, this incident exposes how repressive the new press law is. Any individual or company can cause the arrest of a newspaper editor.
AFP — Ethiopian authorities Woyanne released a newspaper editor detained last week after it reported on a labour dispute at a local brewery, a media watchdog says.
Amare Aregawi was held for five days in a prison 750 kilometres north of Addis Ababa, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement.
He was released yesterday on bail of 300-birr (around 31-dollars).
RSF urged Ethiopian government to “amend the newly-adopted media law in order to eliminate prison sentences for press offences.”
Aregawi’s private Amharic language weekly Reporter published an article last month citing two former employees of the brewery as saying they were wrongfully dismissed.
The brewery company had sued the paper for libel.
Ethiopia was only removed from RSF’s blacklist of media offenders in May, having been labelled “an enemy of the internet” along with Zimbabwe.
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ጀርመን የአማርኛ ድምጽ ሬድዮ ቀርቦ አማረ አረጋዊ እንዳልው : “የፕረስ ህግ ብቻ ሳይሆን ሰብአዊ መብቴም ተረግጣል” በአጠቃላይ ማንም መብቱ የጠየቀና የቅንጅት አምራር ሰዎችም አሁን ከደረሰብህ በላይ ደርሷቸው ነው ህዝቡ እሪ ሲል የነበረው::
መታሰርህ ትያትርም ሊሆን ይችላል:: ካልሆነም ዲክታተሮች አንድ በአንድ ማሰቃየት ልማዳቸው ነውና አብረን እንቁም እንታገል::እያንዳንዱ ቤት እስኪያንኳኩ ድረስ አንጠብቅ::
የኢትዮጵያ አንድነት ጸንቶ ይኑር::
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August 28th, 2008 at 3:46 PM
Elias:
This is like: ” DORON SIDELILUAT BE MECHAGNA TALUAT” what our forefathers said.
Fake jail!
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August 28th, 2008 at 3:52 PM
WE ARE SURPRISED AND SHOCKED!
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August 28th, 2008 at 5:45 PM
THIS IS ANOTHER ROUND OF DRAMA WHICH IS PREPARED AND STAGED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA . AMARE WAS NOT ARRESTED FOR THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS EVEN IF HE ISSUED A VERY SENSITIVE ARTICLE IN HIS NEWSPAPER .NOW HE HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR SILLY REASON ,HE IS THE GOVERNMENT[EPRDF] DISGUISED PR WE DO REMEMBER THE YEAR 2005 . THIS DRAMA IS TO SHOW AS IF HE IS OUT OF THEM.NOBODY WILL BE CHEATED
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August 28th, 2008 at 5:51 PM
This whole drama was contrived from day one, how did the RSF know about this Woyanne stooge’s arrest and the details of his case? RSF is nothing but a tool of western intelligence and propaganda entities, this whole affair is designend to show how “just” the Woyanne junta is. No one should be fooled by such manufactured drama. This whole thing smells like a rotten eggs to me designed to fool the Ethiopian people and make Woyanne look like a just regime that exercises justice and due course. This is a total BS story, the good thing is ER lets people give their opinions about the stories it posts.
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August 28th, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Nice drama of Woyane. Amare is the right hand of Woyane like Million Assefa (Lawer of Tedy Afro). They are jailed to confuse innocent ethiopians.
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August 28th, 2008 at 6:59 PM
Amare aregawi is a man with out his own firm stand. he is standless [ aderbayi] Untill the may election 2005, Amare was anti melese group, right after the election , when Amare knew his criminal and terrorist group TPLF lost an election , he jumped from an opposition camp and stood by his GROUP after his mission accomplished. I will never forget what this racist man wrote about kinijit’s leaders after melese threw them to quality. Amare said” The hiddem mission of kinijit is dismantled [keshefe] after kinijit’s leaders arrested” according to him . weyane’s aligation of kinijit’s leaders of genocide was based on facts. This dramist did not write a single statement about journalists who were being thrown by his criminal and terrorist TPLF. Now , other ethiopians should learn from their mistakes. we should not trust people. what is his next mission?
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August 29th, 2008 at 4:13 PM