{"id":277134,"date":"2019-05-26T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T18:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiLmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jb20vbmV3cy93b3JsZC1hZnJpY2EtNDg0MTYwMDDSATJodHRwczovL3d3dy5iYmMuY29tL25ld3MvYW1wL3dvcmxkLWFmcmljYS00ODQxNjAwMA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:55:12","slug":"bbc-said-the-former-boss-of-ethiopias-notorious-jail-ogaden-had-been-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277134","title":{"rendered":"BBC said the former boss of Ethiopia\u2019s notorious Jail Ogaden had been arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 the BBC reported that Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, also known as Hassan Dhere, the former head of Jail Ogaden in Ethiopia\u2019s Somali Region, had been arrested in neighboring Somalia after a tip-off and was expected to face trial.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-493684\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Somalia-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BBC said the former boss of Ethiopia\u2019s notorious Jail Ogaden had been arrested\" \/>\n<p>Campaigners said inmates at the prison were routinely tortured, often on accusations of links to the Ogaden National Liberation Front, before that group\u2019s later peace track with Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Arresting a feared jail chief became a test of whether regional reform in Somali Region would deliver real accountability or only symbolic removals.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as rights archive, the Jail Ogaden arrest is a dated checkpoint for Somali Region justice claims in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-48416000\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-boss of Ethiopia&#8217;s notorious Jail Ogaden arrested&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC NewsThe man who ran a jail where suspected separatists were reportedly tortured is captured in Somalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":493684,"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-277134","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\/2025\/01\/Somalia-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=460%2C438&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a5U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277134","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=277134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754921,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277134\/revisions\/754921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}