{"id":274558,"date":"2019-05-02T22:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T02:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=525961c99586a17f905eef9203dc8f87"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:06","slug":"abiy-raised-an-ethiopian-engineers-china-detention-with-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274558","title":{"rendered":"Abiy raised an Ethiopian engineer\u2019s China detention with Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early May 2019 SupChina reported that Abiy Ahmed, during meetings with Xi Jinping, raised the pre-trial detention in China of a 27-year-old Ethiopian civil engineering graduate, turning a bilateral soft-power trip into a consular-rights test.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Abiy raised an Ethiopian engineer\u2019s China detention with Xi Jinping\" \/>\n<p>Individual detention cases are easy for capitals to bury under infrastructure MOUs. Naming one graduate in a room with Xi signaled that diaspora and student safety had become a political file, not only a family nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s China relationship runs on loans, rail, industrial parks, and silence. When Addis speaks up for one citizen, it is worth recording whether follow-through matches the handshake.<\/p>\n<p>As rights\/diaspora archive, the engineer case sits beside other Horn citizens trapped in foreign legal systems while their governments chase investment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/supchina.com\/2019\/05\/02\/case-of-ethiopian-engineer-detained-in-china-is-raised-by-pm-abiy-ahmed-in-meeting-with-xi\/\">SupChina \/ The China Project<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case of Ethiopian engineer detained in China is raised by PM Abiy Ahmed in meeting with Xi&nbsp;&nbsp;SupChinaEthiopia&#8217;s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed raised attention to an individual case of a 27-year-old Ethiopian civil engineering graduate&#8217;s pre-trial &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"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-274558","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\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19qm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274558","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602515,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274558\/revisions\/602515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}