{"id":358394,"date":"2021-05-26T15:07:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=358394"},"modified":"2021-05-26T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:07:44","slug":"jawar-mohammed-24-others-announced-decision-not-to-appear-before-court-any-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/358394","title":{"rendered":"Jawar Mohammed, 24 others announced decision not to appear before court any more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed opposition leader Jawar Mohammed and 24 others announced a decision not to appear before court, accusing the presiding jury of failing to make a judgment on their cases.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants have been charged with terrorism related following a wave of ethnic unrest that followed the murder of popular musician Hachalu Hundessa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to be punished or be free but none of them is \u00a0happening, Hence we have decided not to appear before court anymore,\u201d they argued.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants further said they would hold a hunger strike to oppose the \u201cmass killing and injustice\u201d in Tigray region.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants announced their decision in a letter addressed to the Federal High Court Lideta Branch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed opposition leader Jawar Mohammed and 24 others announced a decision not to appear before court, accusing the presiding jury of failing to make a judgment on their cases. The defendants have been charged with terrorism related following a wave of ethnic unrest that followed the murder of popular musician Hachalu Hundessa. \u201cWe are here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":358395,"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-358394","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\/05\/Jawar.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1vey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358394","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358396,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358394\/revisions\/358396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}