{"id":278846,"date":"2019-06-13T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T20:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZhaXJwbGFuZXQub3JnL3N0b3J5L2FiZWwtd2FiZWxhLXBheWluZy10aGUtcHJpY2UtZm9yLXNwZWFraW5nLXRydXRoLXRvLXBvd2VyLWluLWV0aGlvcGlhL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:13","slug":"fairplanet-said-activist-abel-wabela-paid-a-heavy-price-for-pressing-ethiopias-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278846","title":{"rendered":"Fairplanet said activist Abel Wabela paid a heavy price for pressing Ethiopia\u2019s rule of law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 June 2019 Fairplanet published a profile of Ethiopian activist Abel Wabela, describing him as a strong-willed patriot whose fight for respect of the rule of law had made him pay a heavy personal price among peers who followed his work.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fairplanet said activist Abel Wabela paid a heavy price for pressing Ethiopia\u2019s rule of law\" \/>\n<p>The feature framed Wabela\u2019s story inside Ethiopia\u2019s wider civic struggle over rights and accountability after years of contested politics, and it presented his case as one example of the cost of public dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as activism and rights archive, the Fairplanet profile dates how an international outlet recorded Abel Wabela\u2019s rule-of-law campaign in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairplanet.org\/story\/abel-wabela-paying-the-price-for-speaking-truth-to-power-in-ethiopia\/\">Fairplanet<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abel Wabela: Paying the price for speaking truth to power in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;FairplanetHe is described by his peers as strong willed patriot, but Ethiopia&#8217;s Abel Wabela fight for respect of rule of law has made him pay the ultimate prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"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-278846","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\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1axw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278846","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=278846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755215,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278846\/revisions\/755215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}