{"id":334422,"date":"2020-10-14T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=334422"},"modified":"2020-10-14T17:17:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:17:20","slug":"journalists-temesgen-desalegn-and-misgan-zinabe-arrested-by-addis-ababa-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/334422","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Temesgen Desalegn and Misgan Zinabe arrested by Addis Ababa Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VOA has reported that prominent journalist Temesgen Desalegn, publisher of Fitih Newspaper, and editor-in-chief Misgan Zinabe have been arrested this afternoon. The two journalists were picked up by Addis Ababa police from their office.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Addis Ababa City administration had sent a letter to the Ethiopian Broadcast Authority accusing Fitih editors of publishing a false story about Addis Ababa Mayor Adanech Abebe. According to the letter, Fitih Newspaper reported that Adanech Abebe&#8217;s personal bank account shows 40 million birr the source of which is unknown. Mereja.com has obtained the letter to Broadcast Authority:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-City-letter-accusing-Temesgen-Desalegn.jpg?resize=780%2C1010&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"1010\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-334423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-City-letter-accusing-Temesgen-Desalegn.jpg?resize=791%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-City-letter-accusing-Temesgen-Desalegn.jpg?resize=618%2C800&amp;ssl=1 618w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-City-letter-accusing-Temesgen-Desalegn.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-City-letter-accusing-Temesgen-Desalegn.jpg?resize=640%2C828&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-City-letter-accusing-Temesgen-Desalegn.jpg?w=1545&amp;ssl=1 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-Police-commision-letter-to-Oromia-Prosperity-Party.jpg?resize=591%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-334426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-Police-commision-letter-to-Oromia-Prosperity-Party.jpg?resize=591%2C800&amp;ssl=1 591w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Addis-Ababa-Police-commision-letter-to-Oromia-Prosperity-Party.jpg?w=630&amp;ssl=1 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Temesgen Desalegn<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Temesgen-Desalegn-arrested.jpg?resize=780%2C439&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-334424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Temesgen-Desalegn-arrested.jpg?resize=800%2C450&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Temesgen-Desalegn-arrested.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Temesgen-Desalegn-arrested.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Temesgen-Desalegn-arrested.jpg?w=1023&amp;ssl=1 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/>      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA has reported that prominent journalist Temesgen Desalegn, publisher of Fitih Newspaper, and editor-in-chief Misgan Zinabe have been arrested this afternoon. The two journalists were picked up by Addis Ababa police from their office. Last week, the Addis Ababa City administration had sent a letter to the Ethiopian Broadcast Authority accusing Fitih editors of publishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334424,"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-334422","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\/2020\/10\/Temesgen-Desalegn-arrested.jpg?fit=1023%2C575&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1oZU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334422","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334427,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334422\/revisions\/334427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}