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Swedish Journalists Found Guilty in Ethiopia

August 15, 2013Conflict & Justice

A court in Ethiopia has sentenced two Swedish journalists to eleven years in prison for helping an outlawed rebel group. The reporter Martin Schibbye and the photographer Johan Persson were arrested in July.

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