Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Growing Assault On Independent Media

Addis Standard Editor Detained, Newsroom Raided Ethiopian authorities are intensifying their assault on media freedom in the country. On August 1, unidentified security personnel detained Yonas Kedir, the editor-in-chief of the Addis Standard, and questioned him for 24 hours about the independent news outlet's reporting before releasing him, according to a statement by the outlet. The following day, security and intelligence officials raided the outlet's offices, damaging and confiscating equipment. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines The Addis Standard has been through this before. Four months ago, men in plainclothes seized the outlet's managing editor, Million Beyene, and held him incommunicado for nearly two weeks before releasing him without charge. The authoriti