April 26, 2014
by Endalk
![On April 25, six members of the Zone Nine blogging collective [am] were arrested in Ethiopia.](http://ethiopia.ecadf.netdna-cdn.com/News/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/zone9-bloggers-arrested.jpg)
On April 25, six members of the Zone Nine blogging collective [am] were arrested in Ethiopia. Allies report that they are now being held at Maekelawi, a detention center in Addis Ababa, the nation’s capital.
News of the arrests first broke on Twitter, where fellow bloggers and social media users voiced support for those arrested and expressed their own fears about what may be to come.
Writer Bisrat Teshome, who lives in Addis Ababa, tweeted:
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