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At about 1:30 p.m. on 10 September, security officers in civilian clothes and members of the Ethiopian federal police arrested Mr Abay from his home in the capital, Addis Ababa.
Twenty-two media employees have been arrested across Ethiopia this year alone.
11 media workers have been arrested in separate police raids on independent media outlets in Addis Ababa and Amhara.
The Ethiopian government must release detained journalists and stop intimidating the media.