East Africa: Journalist Gobeze Sisay Facing Terrorism Investigation in Ethiopia After Arrest in Djibouti

Nairobi — Ethiopian authorities should immediately release journalist Gobeze Sisay and cease harassing members of the press at home and abroad, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday.

On May 6, Ethiopian authorities announced that Gobeze, editor and founder of privately owned YouTube-based broadcaster The Voice of Amhara, had been arrested in the neighboring country of Djibouti. The journalist’s lawyer, Addisu Almaw, told CPJ that he was renditioned to Ethiopia and was held at the…