A British citizen released last week after being imprisoned on death row in Ethiopia said he only found out that he would be freed after a government official commented on an appeal on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Andargachew, known as Andy, said he found out he would be released after Ethiopia\u2019s attorney general responded to a Facebook appeal page, saying he would be pardoned. \u201cIt\u2019s very strange,\u201d said Tsege. \u201cI\u2019m floating. It\u2019s a feeling of unrealness.\u201d […] READ THE FULL STORY HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A British citizen released last week after being imprisoned on death row in Ethiopia said he only found out that he would be freed after a government official commented on an appeal on Facebook. Andargachew, known as Andy, said he found out he would be released after Ethiopia\u2019s attorney general responded to a Facebook appeal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220290,"comment_status":"closed","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-220270","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\/06\/Andargachew-Tsige-arrives-in-London-after-being-released-from-prison-in-Ethiopia-1-June-2018.jpg?fit=1015%2C570&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-ViK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220270","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=220270"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220291,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220270\/revisions\/220291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}