{"id":276168,"date":"2019-05-15T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiaWh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNS8xNS8yMDE5L2V0aGlvcGlhLWVyaXRyZWEtZmlsbW1ha2VyLXJlZnVnZWUtc3R1Y2staW4tbGlieWEtYW1pZC1yYWdpbmctY2l2aWwtd2FyL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:08","slug":"tadias-an-ethiopia-eritrea-filmmaker-refugee-described-detention-and-war-noise-near-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276168","title":{"rendered":"Tadias: an Ethiopia\u2013Eritrea filmmaker refugee described detention and war noise near Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 May 2019 Tadias Magazine published messages from Abraha Taeme, a theater and film graduate who said he was stuck in Libyan detention near Tripoli while fighting between Khalifa Haftar\u2019s forces and rival militias closed in.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-263547\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tadias: an Ethiopia\u2013Eritrea filmmaker refugee described detention and war noise near Tripoli\" \/>\n<p>Abraha wrote that he had spent about two years in smuggler warehouses with little food, no medicine, and almost no sunlight, and that later camp transfers still left children and sick people within earshot of heavy weapons. A California filmmaker researching trafficking had forwarded his Facebook pleas to Tadias.<\/p>\n<p>UNHCR had evacuated some East African asylum seekers from Libya, but he was not among them. His case sat inside the same Red Sea\u2013to-Mediterranean corridor that has carried Eritreans and Ethiopians for years.<\/p>\n<p>As migration and culture archive, the file keeps a named artist\u2019s voice from a Libyan warehouse, not only a border-crossing number.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/05\/15\/2019\/ethiopia-eritrea-filmmaker-refugee-stuck-in-libya-amid-raging-civil-war\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia- Eritrea Filmmaker Refugee Stuck in Libya Amid Raging Civil War at Tadias Magazine&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineTadias Magazine By Tadias Staff. Published: May 15th, 2019. New York (TADIAS) \u2014 Abraha Taeme, who is in a refugee camp near Tripoli in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":263547,"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-276168","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\/Immigration-on-the-top-of-agenda-for-Australia-visit-of-Germany-President-730x486.jpg?fit=730%2C486&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Qk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276168","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=276168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754788,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276168\/revisions\/754788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}