U.S. senators call for release of journalists in Ethiopia
THREE leading Democratic U.S. senators have written to Ethiopia's prime minister to express concern about the erosion of press freedoms in the country and to call for the release of journalists detained there. The letter from Senators Chris Murphy, Patrick Leahy and Ben Cardin to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and said that "over the last few months, the Ethiopian government has increasingly engaged in a pattern of intimidation against journalists". They said this trend was in stark contrast to the beginning of his premiership in 2018 when his government had freed scores of detained journalists. "We urge you to return…
