From Reuters...
A pregnant reporter has been jailed in Ethiopia for more than two weeks, and Ethiopia's Information Ministry said on Thursday she had not been legally accredited.
Press freedom advocates have criticised the arrest without charge of online journalist Frezer Negash, who works for the U.S.-based Ethiopian Review website, which is critical of the government.
Fanthaun Assres, the head of journalist accreditation for Ethiopia's information ministry, said Frezer did not have the proper paperwork.
"Frezer has not been accredited by the government as an Ethiopian Review correspondent. She is unknown to us," Fanthaun told Reuters. "If she had been working in Ethiopia as it was alleged, it was illegal."
The website's publisher, Elias Kifle, has said she was properly accredited to work in Ethiopia.
Press freedom watchdogs Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists have criticised Ethiopian authorities for jailing her since Jan. 27 without lodging any charges.
Reporters Without Borders last month called the arrest "deplorable because she is three months pregnant."
The Committee to Protect Journalists has also said that Frezer had been threatened over her work on the website.
Frezer appeared in court on Feb. 6, but no charges were announced and she is due to appear again on Feb. 21, Reporters Without Borders said.
Ethiopia has come under fire for arresting reporters and charging some of them in a treason and genocide case lodged against more than 130 opposition members.
Ethiopian authorities have said that the journalists accused in the case were not above the law because of their profession.
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