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The Zone 9 bloggers are a blogging group from Ethiopia, who maintain a blog in Amharic. On 25 and 26 April 2014, the Ethiopian government arrested six members of the Zone 9 bloggers network and three other journalists, who all now face terrorism charges for their writing. The action has sparked protest throughout Ethiopia and online. They were additionally charged with conspiracy for using basic online encryption tools that journalists routinely use to protect their sources. The arrested bloggers and journalists received training in digital security from the Tactical Technology Collective / Front Line Defenders Security in a Box program.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://tacticaltech.org/tactical-techs-and-front-line-defenders-statement-zone-9-bloggers )〕 Ethiopia’s constitution explicitly protects freedom of speech and the right to privacy, yet the media is controlled by the government. Although the Internet is harder to censor than broadcast or print, the government has exercised control by jailing those who use the Internet to communicate critically about social or political issues in the country. There is currently only one Internet service provider in Ethiopia, and it is owned by the government. . Also in 2012, the country's only Internet service provider blocked access to the Tor Network, which lets users browse the Internet anonymously and access blocked websites. On July 8 and 9, 2015, five of the bloggers were released from prison and all charges against them were dropped. Zelalem Kiberet, Tesfalem Waldyes, Asmamaw Hailegiorgis, Mahlet Fantahun and Edom Kassaye have been freed. Befeqadu Hailu, Natnael Feleke, Atnaf Berahane and Abel Wabela remain behind bars. == History == The group known as Zone 9 got their name from an Ethiopian state prison in Addis Ababa called Kaliti, which has eight zones.〔https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ethiopian-bloggers-on-trial-in-case-seen-as-crackdown-on-free-expression/2015/04/20/d6813d84-d188-11e4-8b1e-274d670aa9c9_story.html〕 The bloggers, who felt that Ethiopia was becoming a bigger prison (Zone 9), called themselves Zone9ers. The group's motto is "We Blog Because We Care." The arrest of these bloggers occurred two days after the Zone 9 bloggers announced that they would be returning to blogging after a silence of nearly six months on their blog page. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zone 9 bloggers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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