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Line 7: Tamerat Negera had been an opposition candidate in the 2005 election. The other co-founders of his newspaper were independent journalists who had been victims of the crackdown in the 2005 election <ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/in-ethiopia-an-independent-voice-is-silenced/article1390793/ "In Ethiopia, an independent voice is silenced"]</ref>. At the moment of the ~~disappearance~~closure of the newspaper, the Ethiopian authorities restricted the foreign funding of human rights and pro-democracy groups ahead of the national elections scheduled for May 2010. The U.S. Embassy issued a statement on December 111o expressing concern that such moves ''“contribute to a perception that space for independent media in Ethiopia is constrained.”'' <ref> [http://ethiopia.usembassy.gov/pr5509.html "U.S. URGES FURTHER ETHIOPIAN ACTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS"]</ref> <ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=a12uZ3xXc36Q "Ethiopia’s Meles Says Aid Allegations ‘Outrageous and Stupid’"]</ref>. ==References==

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