Sunday, November 25, 2012

Stop sending Ethiopian asylum seeking journalists to Kality: Johan Persson

Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson became world famous in 2011 when they were arrested, threatened with death, arrested and sentenced to eleven years in prison accused of terrorism by Ethiopian authorities.

Everything on the basis that the two Swedish journalists on a reporting in Ethiopia had interviewed one of the parties in contentious cases of recovery and autonomy

After 14 months and persistently Swedish diplomacy, the two were freed and could return home to Sweden 14 September 2012. In October, they finally receive Publicistklubbens price in Anna Politkovskaya memory they were assigned while still imprisoned, and the same month came the announcement that they get Ludvig Nordström Award 2013.

·        December is the stage in Dokkhuset. Their history, their fellow prisoner’s stories and a nation's abuse of free speech to spread.

As Martin Schibbye said:

"Ethiopia managed to captivate us two journalists. But they never succeeded in silencing journalism.




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