{"id":219534,"date":"2018-04-24T23:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=219534"},"modified":"2019-02-10T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T21:36:31","slug":"ethiopian-dissident-exiled-in-south-africa-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/219534","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian dissident exiled in South Africa assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 21 April, Gezahegn Gebremeskel, was shot down in cold blood in Johannesburg. The Ethiopian community lays responsibility for the death of Gezahegn at the door of the Ethiopian government.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Gezahegn-Gebremeskel.jpg?resize=613%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219535\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the community said Gezahegn had protested outside a meeting at the Ethiopian embassy of a South Korean delegation the day before. He had been hustled outside and threatened with death.  A day later he was gunned down. The community say this is not the first time such threats have been issued. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/martinplaut.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/24\/ethiopian-opposition-labels-johannesburg-death-a-government-assassination\/amp\/?__twitter_impression=true\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gezahegn&#8217;s daughter speaks out in this video \u2193<br \/>\n[brid  video=&#8221;220857&#8243; player=&#8221;12272&#8243; title=&#8221;Daughter of Gezahegn Gebremeskel speaks out&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday 21 April, Gezahegn Gebremeskel, was shot down in cold blood in Johannesburg. The Ethiopian community lays responsibility for the death of Gezahegn at the door of the Ethiopian government. A spokesman for the community said Gezahegn had protested outside a meeting at the Ethiopian embassy of a South Korean delegation the day before. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Gezahegn-Gebremeskel.jpg?fit=613%2C420&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-V6S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219564,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219534\/revisions\/219564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}