Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Ethiopian police threaten paper over opposition party coverage New York, August 5, 2008--Ethiopian police in the capital, Addis Ababa, threatened on Monday to block distribution of an independently owned newspaper if it continues its leading coverage of a new political opposition movement, according to local journalists. The Amharic-language weekly Awramba Times reported today that it had received two separate phone warnings from top police officials to stop any coverage of "anti-constitutional organizations," Editor Dawit Kebede told CPJ. The warning referred to the paper's extensive coverage of the activities of the Netherlands-based Ginbot 7 movement. Named after the May 15 date in the Ethiopian calendar (the date recalls election day in the 2005 disputed general elections), the...
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