{"id":220410,"date":"2018-06-05T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=220410"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:23:22","slug":"ethiopian-parliament-lifts-the-6-month-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/220410","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Parliament lifts the 6-month state of emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Parliament has voted today to lift the 6-month state of emergency that was declared four months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament has ended the controversial state of emergency law by approving a drafted bill that was submitted by the Council of Ministers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ethiopian-Parliament-lifts-state-of-emergency-1.jpg?resize=780%2C436&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"436\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-220412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ethiopian-Parliament-lifts-state-of-emergency-1.jpg?resize=800%2C447&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ethiopian-Parliament-lifts-state-of-emergency-1.jpg?resize=768%2C429&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ethiopian-Parliament-lifts-state-of-emergency-1.jpg?resize=640%2C357&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Ethiopian-Parliament-lifts-state-of-emergency-1.jpg?w=858&amp;ssl=1 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The state of emergency law was introduced in February in response to widespread protests in Oromia and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. <\/p>\n<p>The law had given the military extraordinary and unconstitutional powers to stop the protests. But it made the civil unrest worse. The protests stopped only after a new prime minister, Dr Abiy Ahmed, was appointed in April who released thousands of political prisoners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Parliament has voted today to lift the 6-month state of emergency that was declared four months ago. The Parliament has ended the controversial state of emergency law by approving a drafted bill that was submitted by the Council of Ministers on Sunday. The state of emergency law was introduced in February in response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220411,"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-220410","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\/Ethiopian-Parliament-lifts-state-of-emergency.jpg?fit=858%2C479&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-Vl0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220410","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=220410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220413,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220410\/revisions\/220413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}