Swedish journalists jailed for 'promoting' rebel group

An Ethiopian court sentenced two Swedish journalists on Tuesday to 11 years in prison for allegedly helping the illegal Ogaden National Liberation Front rebel group and for entering the nation unlawfully in July.

By News Wires (text)

REUTERS - An Ethiopian court sentenced two Swedish journalists on Tuesday to 11 years in prison for helping and promoting the outlawed Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebel group and entering the country illegally, a judge said.

“The court has sentenced both defendants to 11 years. We have heard both cases ... and we believe this is an appropriate sentence,” Judge Shemsu Sirgaga told the court.

Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson were arrested in July after they entered Ethiopia’s Ogaden province from Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region with a team of ONLF fighters.

Date created : 27/12/2011

Comments (3)

Doubble standard

by Anonyme (not verified) - 30/12/2011 - 06:45

where is the outrage when millions of oromo men, woemen, children and elderlies were jailed, assacinated, prosecuted unfairly just for demanding basic human right in their home land?
we as oromo, this is our daily life experiance. The life that a child without father growing up, a mother and her daughter being rapped by "woyane" the current rulling government member, where is the outrage and the true human being feeling for another fellow human being?

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A esasy solution for all

by Anonyme (not verified) - 27/12/2011 - 15:34

Boicot Ethiopian Government etihopian products, until Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson are free.
That is what also USA shall be do until Cuba put free Alan Gross.