Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Al Jazeera had an interview with Soliana Shimeles the co-founder of Zone 9 Bloggers who are in exile.



     On february 17,2015 Al Jazeera had an interview with Soliana Shimeles the co-founder of Zone 9 Bloggers who are in exile. One of the victim of threats by Ethiopian government ,charged with terrorist action.

  In April,2014 the Ethiopian government imprisoned nine journalists, bloggers from Zone 9, in one of the worst crackdowns against free expression in the country. Ethiopia is the second worst jailer of journalists in Africa according to CPJ research
After the bloggers held in detention since April have been charged with terrorism by a court in the capital, Addis Ababa.

  The three journalists and six bloggers who are known as the Zone 9 bloggers started blogging in 2012 they have been doing a lot of reporting on human rights issues. they are an online media group that had been trying to give a fact-based narrative of the Ethiopian situation, on human rights, economic and political issues.They had the experience of doing advocacy on human rights issues and also they had four campaigns, one on the Ethiopian constitution, the second one was about censorship,the third was about demonstrating, the right to demonstrate, and the last one was about creating a better Ethiopia.

  This Bloggers had been receiving a lot of threats and harassment from security people, and they always threaten them individually by telling them they should stop what they re doing and that its better for them they should support the government.
And because the bloggers did not stopped by the threats so they get arrested by the criminal regime in Ethiopia who contradicts and violate its own constitution.

 The bloggers and journalists are accused of connections to Ginbot 7 and the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), two of five organizations designated as terrorist organizations in 2011 by the House of Representatives, the Ethiopian parliament.
On February 17,2015 Al Jazeera had an interview with Soliana Shimeles the co-founder of Zone 9 Bloggers who are in exile. One of the victim of threats by Ethiopian government ,charged with terrorist action.

http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201502171427-0024564

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