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The Zone 9 bloggers are a blogging collective from Ethiopia, who maintain a blog in Amharic. On 25 and 26 April 2014, the Ethiopian government arrested six members of the Zone 9 bloggers network and three other journalists, who faced terrorism charges for their writing at the time.
Zone 9 Bloggers. The Ethiopian Supreme Court on April 6, 2017, levied criminal charges against two Zone 9 bloggers, Atnaf Berhane and Natnail Feleke, three years after they were first arrested in April 2014. They were later acquitted of terrorism charges and released in October 2015.
9 lip 2015 · The Zone 9 bloggers, a collective of Ethiopian writers whose website produced social and political commentary often critical of the government, were initially arrested in April 2014. They were charged under Ethiopia’s sweeping anti-terrorism law for their connections with international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and writings that ...
Zone 9 is a collective of nine independent Amharic language bloggers who aim “to create independent narratives” in the east African country of Ethiopia. Their moto is “We blog because we care”. The bloggers came to know each other through their social media activities and individual blogging.
7 kwi 2017 · NEW YORK—The Ethiopian Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to open a criminal case against two Zone 9 bloggers formerly charged and acquitted of terrorism is a shameful setback in a long drawn-out freedom of expression battle, PEN America said today.
17 lip 2014 · The detainees had all worked with Zone9, a collective blog that covered social and political issues in Ethiopia and promoted human rights and government accountability. Many of them were also contributors to Global Voices.
16 paź 2015 · Four Ethiopian bloggers who were detained in April 2014 have been acquitted of terrorism charges by a court in the capital Addis Ababa.
