30/05/2025
Ethiopian journalist Ahmed Awga sentenced to 2 years in prison
Nairobi, May 30, 2025?The Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed by an Ethiopian regional court?s decision to sentence Jigjiga Television Network founder Ahmed Awga to two years in jail on charges of disseminating hateful information via a Facebook post he did not author. On May 22, the Fafen Zone High Court in Jigjiga, the capital of Ethiopia?s eastern Somali Region, sentenced Ahmed, whose legal name is Ahmed Abdi Omar, to two...
