Ten thousand copies of a non political monthly magazine, Enku, has been impounded by police and its publisher and deputy editor, Alemayehu Mahtemework, imprisoned. The magazine was impounded Friday night just before it was set to hit the market early today, Saturday.

Along with the publisher, three other persons in no way connected to the Magazine but who were in the van carrying the magazine out of the printing press were also imprisoned. The magazine's cover story is about the imprisonment of Ethiopia's pop icon and critic of the government, Tewdros Kasahun, which is stirring political passions in the country.

The imprisoned are due to appear before court on Tuesday.