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Ethiopian journalist Sekalem Fasil honored Print E-mail
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Friday, 12 June 2009
Serkalem Fasil Ethiopian journalist Sekalem Fasil has been honored by the Global Forum of Freedom of Expression in Oslo, Norway. Serkalem was jailed in the aftermath of the highly contested 2005 elections in Ethiopia. Before May 2005, Serkalem and her husband, Eskinder Nega, used to run two independent newspapers, Menelik and Satenaw, both shut down as a result of the total muzzeling of the Free Press by the regime.
 
 
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