{"id":434810,"date":"2023-02-25T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=434810"},"modified":"2023-02-25T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:01:24","slug":"prominent-ethiopian-politician-and-social-activist-eskinder-nega-detained-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/434810","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Ethiopian politician and social activist Eskinder Nega detained: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prominent Ethiopian politician and social activist Eskinder Nega has been detained by security forces, according to multiple media reports on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eskinder a former newspaper mogul, political prisoner and later on in 2019 a founder of the Balderas for Genuine Democracy Party (BGDP) has been detained in the northern Amhara region, multiple media reports indicate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back in August, Eskinder announced in a letter he is quoting his role as chairman of BGDP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eskinder attributed his decision to the outright repression and extreme authoritarianism of the administration of Prime Minister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He encouraged remaining members of the party to continue their peaceful political struggle. Since, then Eskinder\u2019s whereabouts has been a mystery as he opted out of public eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exact circumstances of Eskinder\u2019s latest arrest hasn\u2019t yet been disclosed by authorities and his former political party.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eskinder a veteran Ethiopian public figure has been arrested multiple times by authorities first by the defunct Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eskinder\u2019s last stint in prison was during the current ruling Prosperity Party from late June 2020 to early January 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was accused of an attempt to \u201cprovoke violence and endanger the constitutional order\u201d, a charge which many saw as politically motivated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The former Balderas party chairman but was abruptly released from prison on Ethiopian Christmas day in January 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Ethiopian politician and social activist Eskinder Nega has been detained by security forces, according to multiple media reports on Saturday.\u00a0 Eskinder a former newspaper mogul, political prisoner and later on in 2019 a founder of the Balderas for Genuine Democracy Party (BGDP) has been detained in the northern Amhara region, multiple media reports indicate.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":434811,"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":[4821],"tags":[1157],"class_list":["post-434810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ethiopian-news-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/g-1.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1P74","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434810","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434812,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434810\/revisions\/434812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}