{"id":374396,"date":"2021-10-21T12:18:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T16:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=374396"},"modified":"2021-10-21T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T23:56:05","slug":"eskinder-nega-attacked-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/374396","title":{"rendered":"Eskinder Nega attacked in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prison spokesperson in Addis Ababa told the court today that Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia&#8217;s most prominent opposition leader and civil rights advocate, was unable to come to today&#8217;s hearing because he was injured after being attacked by a group of individuals. The hearing today has been postponed until next week as a result. Mereja.com sources are saying that the attackers were assisted by prison guards. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Eskinder-Nega-483310859980752807_n.jpg?resize=459%2C395&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"395\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-374398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eskinder has been arrested over a year ago on trumped-up charges of inciting violence. Previously, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had threatened to go to war against Eskinder when the long-time political prisoner announced that he will form a new party. <\/p>\n<p>On top of the worsening human rights abuse, under Abiy Ahmed&#8217;s leadership, Ethiopia has descended into a horrific civil war in several parts of the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prison spokesperson in Addis Ababa told the court today that Eskinder Nega, Ethiopia&#8217;s most prominent opposition leader and civil rights advocate, was unable to come to today&#8217;s hearing because he was injured after being attacked by a group of individuals. The hearing today has been postponed until next week as a result. Mereja.com sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374397,"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-374396","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\/10\/Eskinder-Nega-4899676.jpg?fit=587%2C564&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1zoE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374396","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=374396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374460,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374396\/revisions\/374460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}