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CPJ, Rights Groups Slam Dawit Kebede; NED Stops Funding

January 27, 2015January 28, 2015TesfaNews12 Comments

By Tamru Ayele, THE Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Oakland Institute (OI) and Survival International (SI) have strongly rejected and condemned Dawit Kebede’s recent claims against several global advocacy groups. The groups said such an irresponsible and unsubstantiated allegation that has no factual basis is not expected of someone who claims to be a journalist […]

CPJ Press Freedom ‘Hero’ Says Right Groups are Tools for Western Hegemony

December 29, 2014January 1, 2015TesfaNews18 Comments

By Tamiru Ayele, ETHIOPIAN journalist and former CPJ “press freedom hero” have accused the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) as being one of the tools for imposing “Western hegemonic ambition”. Dawit Kebede, managing editor of Awramba Times, who was one of the four recipients of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award in 2010, launched the scathing […]