Now, with a new reformist prime minister Abiy Ahmed in office, Ethiopia has made so much progress in freeing jailed journalists and lifting press controls.
, I have heard arguments such as Zenawi’s many times. Journalists, officials in emerging democracies often insist, must be constrained by the state until they are able to carry out their work responsibly. But rather than developing a credible free press, this approach impedes it.
, which authorised imprisoning and fining journalists who “write, print, utter or publish any false, scandalous and malicious writing” against the government. Twenty newspaper editors were subsequently jailed. signed new laws authorising punishment of individuals and online media for spreading so-called fake news and information that “disrespects” the state.
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