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I was able to interview Linnea Schibbye Steiner, Martin Schibbye's wife, at an event organized by Omvärldens Magazine & Reporters Without Borders Sweden here in Stockholm last week on December 02, 2011.Martin Schibbye & Johan Persson, the duo Swedish journalists, have been at Kaliti jail (one of the worst prisons in the world) since last July after they were caught while they crossing Ethio-Somalia border to investigate the human rights violations perpetuated by the Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi & his cronies in Ogaden region. The regime which is among the worst enemies of freedom of expression has also charged more than 6 critical journalists/bloggers, leaders and members of opposition parties with cooked up evidence under the guise of its infamous recently enacted ''anti-terror'' law. Recently the dictator intensified its crackdown on the media, as a result CPJ's 2010 award winner Dawit Kebede and another satirist Ethiopian journalist Abebe Tola aka Abe Tokichaw fled the country. Tomorrow December 06, 2011, Johan & Martin will appear at Zenawi's kangaroo court which has been used by the junta to orchestrate its circus and deceive the world about its legitimacy. What's more frustrating according to Linnea Schibbye and many Swedish citizens is that the Swedish government's silent diplomacy which could risk the lives of these two courageous journalists who did no crime but dared to voice to the voiceless. And this clip the first ever piece I ever made all by myself is ...