Elias Kifle Explained

Elias Kifle (Amharic: ኤልያስ ክፍሌ) is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Washington D.C.-based Ethiopian Review, an English/Amharic language Ethiopian news magazine that was launched in January 1991. He is currently the CEO of Mereja TV, a satellite television channel, and Mereja.com, an online news and opinion journal.

Libel

In December 2010 Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi initiated a claim in the English High Court against Elias Kifle claiming damages for libel. In July 2011 Kifle was ordered to pay £175,000 in damages for publishing that Al Amoudi had hunted his daughter down so she could be stoned to death.^[1]

In 2012, Kifle was charged in absentia of treason and sentenced to life in prison.^[2]

External links

• Ethiopian Review
• Interview with Ethiopian Television Network (ETN)
• On trial for treason (Amnesty International)
• Attack on the Press (CPJ report 2006)
• Attack on the Press (CPJ report 2007)
• Arrests, closings, censorship found by CPJ delegationEthiopian political divide ensnares the press
• Ethiopian editor sentenced to prison; another freed on bail (CPJ)
• Critical Web sites inaccessible in Ethiopia (CPJ)
• Ethiopian blog blockage sparks free speech debate (Global Voices)
• The limits of free speech (EthioZagol)
• Court sentenced Ethiopian opposition leaders to life in prison (Ethiopian Review)
• Ethiopia and Human and Democratic Rights (Washington Post)
• Elias Kifle on ETN's weekly TV show 'BeGimbar'
• Elias Kifle and Andargachew Tsige guilty, Ethiopian court rules - Ethiopian Review article

Notes and References

1. News: Ethiopian billionaire wins libel action in UK . BBC News . 2011-07-29.
2. Web site: Attacks on the Press 2006: Ethiopia. 2007-02-05. Cpj.org. 2009-02-12.