{"id":441289,"date":"2023-04-12T13:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T17:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=441289"},"modified":"2023-04-12T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T18:00:59","slug":"prominent-freelance-ethiopian-journalist-dawit-begashaw-abducted-by-security-forces-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/441289","title":{"rendered":"Prominent freelance Ethiopian journalist Dawit Begashaw abducted by security forces: colleague\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prominent freelance Ethiopian journalist Dawit Begashaw has been abducted by security forces earlier today, his colleague Mulugeta Anberbir disclosed on Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dawit was abducted by security forces around 6pm in the evening in Homeland hotel, in Bahirdar by Ethiopian army commandoes, Mulugeta disclosed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mulugeta further disclosed the whereabouts of Dawit\u2019s detention place hasn\u2019t been located yet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dawit has previously worked at various media outlets including Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC), Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) and Al-Ain Amharic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He had recently co-founded a web-based media outlet, Arat-Kilo media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, security forces detained prominent Ethiopian political commentator and founder of a YouTube based media outlet, Ethio-Nikat, Meskerem Abera. Meskerem is still in detention.<\/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 moves to stifle critical voices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February, prominent Ethiopian 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 freelance Ethiopian journalist Dawit Begashaw has been abducted by security forces earlier today, his colleague Mulugeta Anberbir disclosed on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 Dawit was abducted by security forces around 6pm in the evening in Homeland hotel, in Bahirdar by Ethiopian army commandoes, Mulugeta disclosed.\u00a0 Mulugeta further disclosed the whereabouts of Dawit\u2019s detention place hasn\u2019t been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":441290,"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-441289","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\/da.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1QNz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441289","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=441289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441292,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441289\/revisions\/441292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}