{"id":222809,"date":"2018-06-19T23:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T03:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=222809"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:13:01","slug":"former-u-s-presidential-candidate-and-senator-marco-rubio-meets-with-journalist-eskinder-nega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/222809","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Presidential candidate and Senator Marco Rubio meets with journalist Eskinder Nega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States Senator Marco Rubis, who competed in the 2016 presidential election, has held a meeting with Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega at his office in Washington DC today.<\/p>\n<p>Eskinder Nega was among thousands of political prisoners who were freed two months ago following a nation-wide civil unrest in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Video of the meeting:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/45u_Mv6giQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Ethiopian Dissident: Rubio has been the voice of democracy and the oppressed\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<p>After meeting with Eskinder, Senator Rubia tweeted the following: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b4cAXwDUa6\">pic.twitter.com\/b4cAXwDUa6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Senator Rubio Press (@SenRubioPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRubioPress\/status\/1009107201653428224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Senator Marco Rubis, who competed in the 2016 presidential election, has held a meeting with Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega at his office in Washington DC today. Eskinder Nega was among thousands of political prisoners who were freed two months ago following a nation-wide civil unrest in Ethiopia. Video of the meeting: After meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222810,"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-222809","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\/Senator-and-former-Presidential-candidate-Marco-Rubis-meets-with-Ethiopian-journalist-Eskinder-Nega.jpg?fit=1296%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-VXH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222809","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=222809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222873,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222809\/revisions\/222873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}