IPI General Assembly Resolution 2017: Ethiopia
(World News Austria)

The members of the International Press Institute (IPI), meeting at their 66th Annual General Assembly during the IPI World Congress on May 20, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, adopted by unanimous vote a resolution calling on Ethiopia`s government to free imprisoned journalists and end its abuse of anti-terror and defamation laws to silence the press. Members noted that a joint IPI-International Media Support (IMS) jury voted to award the 2017 IPI World Press Freedom Hero Award to Ethiopian journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega, who has...