{"id":337454,"date":"2020-11-12T20:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T01:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=337454"},"modified":"2020-11-12T20:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T01:22:40","slug":"prisoner-of-conscience-aster-seyoum-denied-medical-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/337454","title":{"rendered":"Prisoner of conscience Aster Seyoum denied medical treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aster Seyoum, a political prisoner who is currently languishing in Ethiopian jail, has been denied medical treatment, according to members of her family. <\/p>\n<p>Aster was arrested with Eskinder Nega, leader of Balderas Party, 4 months ago in July along with Sintayehu Chekol.<\/p>\n<p>Before Prime Minister Aby Ahmed came to power in April 2018, Aster was arrested and severely tortured by the previous regime. She is now back in prison as a prisoner of conscience even though PM Abiy promised that Ethiopia will no longer have political prisoners.  <\/p>\n<p>She is currently suffering from multiple illnesses that were caused by the torture she was subjected to during her previous imprisonment.   <\/p>\n<p>Mereja.com will update Aster&#8217;s condition as we receive more details. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Aster-Seyoum.png?resize=780%2C559&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"559\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-337455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Aster-Seyoum.png?w=805&amp;ssl=1 805w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Aster-Seyoum.png?resize=800%2C573&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Aster-Seyoum.png?resize=768%2C550&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Aster-Seyoum.png?resize=640%2C459&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aster Seyoum, a political prisoner who is currently languishing in Ethiopian jail, has been denied medical treatment, according to members of her family. Aster was arrested with Eskinder Nega, leader of Balderas Party, 4 months ago in July along with Sintayehu Chekol. Before Prime Minister Aby Ahmed came to power in April 2018, Aster was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337455,"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-337454","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\/11\/Aster-Seyoum.png?fit=805%2C577&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1pMO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337454","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=337454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337456,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337454\/revisions\/337456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}