Ethiopia Pardons Swedish Journalists, Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye

www.ethiopian.tv Two Swedish journalists who have been imprisoned in Ethiopia for more than a year have been pardoned and freed. Ethiopia’s justice minister Berhan Hailu told reporters in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, that the decision to pardon photographer Johan Persson and reporter Martin Schibbye had been approved by the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.