Friday, January 27, 2012

US blogger given life sentence in Ethiopian prison

US blogger given life sentence in Ethiopian prison

The Federal High Court in Ethiopia has dropped a life sentence on expatriate journalist and blogger Elias Kifle. Kifle's occupation is the editor of the Washington D.C.-based blog, Ethiopian Review, where he was sentenced without being present at the courtroom. While there were whispers going around earlier that he could very well be handed down the death penalty which is the maximum for his alleged crime of “political terrorism” in Ethiopia, I am quite sure that he and his family heaved a collective sigh of relief with the new sentence.

Ubergizmo, US blogger given life sentence in Ethiopian prison

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