{"id":441054,"date":"2023-04-11T07:05:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=441054"},"modified":"2023-04-11T07:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:05:06","slug":"prominent-ethiopian-political-commentator-meskerem-abera-detained-by-security-forces-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/441054","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Ethiopian political commentator Meskerem Abera detained by security forces again\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prominent Ethiopian political commentator and founder of a YouTube based media outlet, Ethio-Nikat Meskerem Abera has been arrested by security forces for third time in less than a year, multiple media reports indicate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meskerem\u2019s husband, Fitsum Gebremichael was quoted in multiple media outlets as saying his wife was arrested by uniformed and plain clothed security forces on Sunday evening from her home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fitsum further disclosed Meskerem was arrested by security forces without court orders and the couple\u2019s house was searched with security forces afterwards confiscating documents and her mobile phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent months, non-state affiliated media outlets are coming under relentless attacks as the Ethiopian government tries to stifle critical voices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February, prominent journalist and founder of a YouTube based media outlet Ethio-Selam, Tewodros Asfaw was arrested by security forces and detained for over a week. Tewodros was later released on bail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Ethiopian political commentator and founder of a YouTube based media outlet, Ethio-Nikat Meskerem Abera has been arrested by security forces for third time in less than a year, multiple media reports indicate.\u00a0 Meskerem\u2019s husband, Fitsum Gebremichael was quoted in multiple media outlets as saying his wife was arrested by uniformed and plain clothed security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":441055,"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":[5845],"class_list":["post-441054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/me.jpg?fit=1280%2C864&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1QJM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441054","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=441054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441056,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441054\/revisions\/441056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}