[HIGHLIGHTS] Ethiopia: French journalist Antoine Galindo imprisoned, accused of wanting to “create chaos”

French journalist Antoine Galindo has been imprisoned in Ethiopia since his arrest on February 22. He is accused by the authorities of “conspiring to create chaos” The journalist was, between 2013 and 2017, correspondent in Ethiopia for several international media.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) denounced “an unjust arrest” which “highlights the appalling context for the press in general in Ethiopia’s jails’ Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said this “arbitrary detention” is “the terrible illustration” of ‘hostility towards independent journalism’