The recently released journalist and activist Temesgen Desalegn has been denied entry to the United States to address Ethiopian community there, friends said.Though he has a legitimate reason to travel to the United States, he has been denied a visa – with an excuse that he has no children and family there, another opposition activist Girma Seifu said.Temesgen, the editor-In-chief for the now defunct Feteh newspaper has been released from prison on mid-October 2017 after serving three years, jailed on spurious charges of defamation.