It has been over three weeks since close to a dozen journalists and bloggers were arrested, most of whom members of the blogging collective known as Zone 9. Their site, hosted in Google’s Blogger platform, was launched two years ago with a catching motto “We blog because we care.” They coined the name after a visit to the Zone 8 of the Kaliti prison, where a fellow journalist, Reeyot Alemu, is serving a five year sentence. Zone 9 is a metaphor to say the rest of the populace is also in jail but in a different cell block. No surprises, their page was blocked within weeks of its launch.An Ethiopian court granted police 10 more days to investigate six bloggers and journalists More... zehabesha/silencing-the-zone9-by-hook-or-crook/
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 10:24:40 +0000
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