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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Police arrested four independent newspaper editors on criminal charges of defaming the military, a media watchdog group said Wednesday.
They were detained for seven hours Tuesday and later released on bail. The arrests stem from reports in their Amharic-language weeklies about Ethiopian air force pilots who sought political asylum while training in Belarus, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
"We are deeply concerned by signs of a crackdown on independent media in Ethiopia," said Ann Cooper, executive director of the international media rights watchdog.
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