Elias Kifle (Amharic: ኤልያስ ክፍሌ) is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Washington D.C.–based Ethiopian Review, an English/Amharic language Ethiopian news magazine that was launched in January 1991. He is currently the CEO of Mereja TV, a satellite television channel, and Mereja.com, an online news and opinion journal. Elias Kifle Seifu is a member of the Lij Seifu Mikael family, an Amhara aristocratic family from the ancient Solomonic Dynasty.
Libel In December 2010 Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi initiated a claim in the English High Court against Elias Kifle claiming damages for libel. In July 2011 Kifle was ordered to pay £175,000 in damages for publishing that Al Amoudi had hunted his daughter down so she could be stoned to death.
In 2012, Kifle was charged in absentia of treason.
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External links Ethiopian Review
On trial for treason (Amnesty International) Attack on the Press (CPJ report 2006) Attack on the Press (CPJ report 2007) Arrests, closings, censorship found by CPJ delegationEthiopian political divide ensnares the press Ethiopian editor sentenced to prison; another freed on bail (CPJ) Critical Web sites inaccessible in Ethiopia (CPJ) Ethiopian blog blockage sparks free speech debate (Global Voices) The limits of free speech (EthioZagol) Court sentenced Ethiopian opposition leaders to life in prison (Ethiopian Review) Ethiopia and Human and Democratic Rights (Washington Post) Elias Kifle on ETN's weekly TV show 'BeGimbar' Elias Kifle and Andargachew Tsige guilty, Ethiopian court rules - Ethiopian Review article