Ethiopia - Journalist Found Guilty - NYTimes.com An Ethiopian court on Wednesday convicted a prominent journalist along with 23 others on terrorism charges in a trial that had been criticized by international rights groups. The case of the journalist, Eskinder Nega, attracted attention in the United States in the spring after he was given a prestigious press freedom award by PEN America. The charges stemmed from writings last fall that questioned the arrests of other journalists as the authorities clamped down on dissent out of fear that the Arab Spring revolts would be emulated in Ethiopia.