Woubshet Taye, an award-winning journalist imprisoned since 2011 under Ethiopia's broad anti-terrorism laws, suffers from a severe kidney infection and is being denied medical care.
The following is a CPJ Blog post by Tom Rhodes/CPJ East Africa Representative
“When I grow up will I go to jail like my dad?” This was the shattering question that the five-year-old son of imprisoned Ethiopian journalist Woubshet Taye asked his mother after a recent prison visit. Woubshet’s son, named Fiteh (meaning “justice”), has accompanied his mother on a wayward tour of various prisons since his father was arrested in June 2011.
Authorities have inexplicably transferred Woubshet, the former deputy editor of the independent weekly Awramba Times, to a number of prisons. From Maekelawi Prison, authorities transferred him to Kality Prison in the capital, Addis Ababa, then to remote Ziway Prison, then Kilinto Prison (just outside Addis Ababa), back to Kality, and in December last year–to Ziway again.
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Berhane Tesfaye and her son, Fiteh, try to visit Woubshet Taye every week.CPJ
