{"id":262284,"date":"2019-01-23T02:22:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=262284"},"modified":"2019-02-06T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T10:35:09","slug":"bereket-simon-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/262284","title":{"rendered":"Bereket Simon arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bereket Simon, a former senior official of the Ethiopian government and a leading figure in Ethiopian politics over the past 3 decades, has been arrested by the Federal Police in Addis Ababa, according to EBC and Nahoo TV. Tadesse Kassa, another former senior official, has also been arrested this morning.<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/9azQN65HI-Y<\/p>\n<p>The following photo shows Bereket Simon being escorted by heavily armed Federal Police troopers from his residence in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-262292\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Bereket-Simon-escorted-by-Federal-Police-after-he-was-arrested-at-his-residence.jpg?resize=780%2C626&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Bereket-Simon-escorted-by-Federal-Police-after-he-was-arrested-at-his-residence.jpg?resize=640%2C514&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Bereket-Simon-escorted-by-Federal-Police-after-he-was-arrested-at-his-residence.jpg?w=718&amp;ssl=1 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bereket Simon, a former senior official of the Ethiopian government and a leading figure in Ethiopian politics over the past 3 decades, has been arrested by the Federal Police in Addis Ababa, according to EBC and Nahoo TV. Tadesse Kassa, another former senior official, has also been arrested this morning. VIDEO https:\/\/youtu.be\/9azQN65HI-Y The following photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262287,"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-262284","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\/2019\/01\/Bereket-Simon-arrested.jpg?fit=1265%2C766&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-16eo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262284","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=262284"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262300,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262284\/revisions\/262300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}