Ink by the barrel in Addis Ababa

摘要

ESKINDER NEGA founded his first newspaper, Ethiopis, in 1993. After seven issues it was forced to close, the first paper charged under a muzzling law introduced by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which had shot its way to power two years before. Three more of Eskinder's newspapers were shut down by the courts. In 2012 he was sentenced to 18 years in prison on charges of terrorism. He was released last year as part of an amnesty for political prisoners.