{"id":265963,"date":"2019-02-16T09:19:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=265963"},"modified":"2019-02-16T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T14:19:05","slug":"names-of-witnesses-in-abdi-muhamud-omers-case-to-remain-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/265963","title":{"rendered":"Names of witnesses in Abdi Muhamud Omer&#8217;s case to remain hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judges in Ethiopia have agreed that the identities of witnesses in a high-profile case should be kept hidden. Judges at the Federal High Couth 4th Criminal Bench in Addis Ababa accepted a request from prosecutors to withhold a list containing the names of witnesses in the case against Abdi Muhamud Omer, the former President of the Somali regional state.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors argue that the names of the witnesses must remain hidden to protect their lives.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the sensitive nature of the case requires this precautionary measure. About 47 senior officials are involved in the criminal case. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201902150698.html\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges in Ethiopia have agreed that the identities of witnesses in a high-profile case should be kept hidden. Judges at the Federal High Couth 4th Criminal Bench in Addis Ababa accepted a request from prosecutors to withhold a list containing the names of witnesses in the case against Abdi Muhamud Omer, the former President of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":265972,"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-265963","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\/02\/Abdi-Mohamud-Omar-620x320.jpg?fit=620%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-17bJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265963","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265973,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265963\/revisions\/265973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}