On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on their way to report on how the ruthless hunt for oil effected the population of the isolated and conflict-ridden Ogaden region. Five days later they lay wounded in the desert sand, shot and captured by the Ethiopian army. But when their initial reportage died, another story began. A story about lawlessness, propaganda and global politics. After a Kafkaesque trial they were sentenced to eleven years in prison for terrorism. And they were far from alone. Their cellmates were journalists, writers and politicians persecuted for not bowing down to dictatorship. Their reportage about oil was transformed into a story about ink, and their daily lives turned into a fight for survival inside the notorious Kality prison in Addis Ababa.
as Martin Schibbye
as Johan Persson
as Abdullahi Hussein
as Werar
as Jens Odlander
as Linnéa Schibbye
as Carl Bildt
as Fredrik Spik
as Chala
as Dany
as Kickan Persson
as Kjell Persson
as Karin Schibbye
as Bruno
as Steven Irving
as Skavlan
as Chief Prosecutor
as Mohammed
as TV Journalist
as Swedish Ex-Ambassador
as Newscaster
as ONLF representative
as Judge #1
as Ali
as Sara
as Abdirisaq
as Reporter #3
as Asad
as Government Official
as Soldier #2
as Reporter #1
as Reporter #2
as Amadi's Father
as Ethiopian Journalist
