Serkalem Fasil, an Ethiopian publisher who received a 2007 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, was denied her applications to launch new newspapers this week by the Ethiopian government. Fasil and her husband, journalist Eskinder Nega, along with another publisher, Sisay Agena, reportedly fulfilled all legal requirements and submitted applications for Lualawi and Habesha, two current affairs Amharic-language weeklies. The journalists were previously imprisoned and their newspapers shut down by the government. Click here to read the CPJ alert.