Leaving was never an option. Even as his colleagues fled Ethiopia’s systematic jailing and constant harassment, journalist Eskinder Nega stayed behind to continue writing. There was simply too much to be done.
WAN-IFRA’s focus in the build up to this year’s 3 May, World Press Freedom Day has been on journalists imprisoned for their work. www.worldpressfreedomday.org gives a vivid picture of just a handful of the more than 200 journalists who were persecuted simply for doing their job in 2013.