On Wednesday two Swedish journalists were convicted of supporting terrorism by an Ethiopian court after they entered the country with an ethnic Somali group; the journalists will be sentenced next week and could spend as long as fifteen years in prison; the journalists say they were gathering news, but the judge doubted their explanation and accused them of being members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front; Jonas Nordling, the chairman of the Swedish Union of Journalists, said the ruling was purely political and meant to deter journalists from covering the area