{"id":334483,"date":"2020-10-15T08:25:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=334483"},"modified":"2020-10-15T08:25:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:25:45","slug":"court-orders-oromia-police-commission-to-release-lidetu-ayalew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/334483","title":{"rendered":"Court orders Oromia Police Commission to release Lidetu Ayalew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high court in Eastern Shewa Zone today has ordered the Oromia Police Commission to release prominent Ethiopian opposition politician Lidetu Ayalew from jail.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Ato Lidetu had posted a 100,000 birr bail, but the Oromia Police Commission refused to release him despite a court order. <\/p>\n<p>The head of Bishoftu Police in the Oromia Region has been ordered to appear in court and explain why the court order was ignored, according to FBC.<\/p>\n<p>Ato Lidetu has been charged with being in possession of an unauthorized weapon and writing a document that undermines the constitution. <\/p>\n<p>Critics, however, allege that he was arrested after scrutinizing the Ethiopian government&#8217;s increasingly close ties with the Eritrean leader Isaias Afwerki.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high court in Eastern Shewa Zone today has ordered the Oromia Police Commission to release prominent Ethiopian opposition politician Lidetu Ayalew from jail. Previously, Ato Lidetu had posted a 100,000 birr bail, but the Oromia Police Commission refused to release him despite a court order. The head of Bishoftu Police in the Oromia Region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334484,"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":[5121],"class_list":["post-334483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-lidetu-ayalew"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Lidetu-Ayalew.jpg?fit=738%2C464&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1p0T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334483","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=334483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334485,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334483\/revisions\/334485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}