Journalist Yayesew Shimeles, a critic of @AbiyAhmedAli's admin, has been detained since 27th of March for dissiminating "false information" in relation to #COVID19 pandemic. @FAGEthiopia has pressed charges against him based on newly enacted anti-hate speech (and false info) law. https://twitter.com/tv_asham/status/1252576750565031936

A week ago, @CARDEthiopia has summarized the case of Yayesew Shimeles in demonstration of Ethiopian government's use of #COVID19 as pretext to silence dissenting voices: https://twitter.com/CARDEthiopia/status/1249683276316409857?s=19

On April 1, @pressfreedom has demanded for the immediate release of Yayesew. Since then, Fed Attorney General has appealed against his bail rights, has brought 'terrorism' case and finally pulled out the anti fake news law card. https://cpj.org/2020/04/ethiopian-journalist-yayesew-shimelis-detained-fol.php

UPDATE: court decided Yayesew Shimeles to be bailed out for ETB 15,000.00 today. In this whole drama, courts acted better than before but the Attorney General has showed that it is the same, unchanged tool of oppressors. https://twitter.com/ethiopiainsider/status/1252891148085006337?s=19