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mesfin negash
Independent journalism is equated with terrorism
The journalist Mesfin Negash is living in exile in Sweden since his newspaper, Addis Neger, was shut down by the Ethiopian authorities in 2010. Negash was accused, along with her colleagues, for terrorism and risked a long prison sentence. The flight went via Uganda to Sweden, where he received asylum in February 2012. In Sweden, he continues his work as a journalist and he writes for Ethiopian and several foreign newspapers, and participates regularly in the Daily News.
After 14 months in prison, the work on
Mesfin Negash shares the prize with the two Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson were detained in Ethiopia for 14 months after he broke into the country to report on the oil extraction in the disputed Ogaden test the ice. That they would be released was not self-evident:
Celebrating press freedom
– Reporters Without Borders would like to this day strongly indicate that free journalism and freedom of expression is not something a government can take away from its citizens. Mesfin, Martin and Johan have shown enormous courage and uncompromising as the long term serve a larger goal, says Jonathan Lundqvist, president of Reporters Without Borders.
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