{"id":441537,"date":"2023-04-14T03:49:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T07:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=441537"},"modified":"2023-04-14T03:49:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T07:49:20","slug":"journalist-tewodros-asfaw-detained-again-as-ethiopian-govt-media-crackdown-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/441537","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Tewodros Asfaw detained again as Ethiopian gov\u2019t media crackdown intensifies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journalist Tewodros Asfaw has been detained by security forces for the second time in two months as Ethiopian government crackdown on non-state media professionals intensifies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple media reports indicate, Tewodros was arrested from his home in Addis Ababa on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tewodros a former staff at Abbay media and Addis Zeybe media outlets had recently founded a YouTube based media outlet, Ethio-Selam.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday, freelance journalist, Dawit Begashaw was abducted by security forces, his colleague Mulugeta Anberbir disclosed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dawit was abducted by security forces from Homeland hotel, in Bahir-Dar city, administrative capital of Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara region, Mulugeta further disclosed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dawit had previously worked at various media outlets including Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC), Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) and Al-Ain Amharic. Dawit has recently co-founded a web-based media outlet, Arat-Kilo media.\u00a0<\/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 dissident voices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crackdown prompted the Ethiopian Mass Media Professionals Association, Ethiopia\u2019s largest journalists and media worker\u2019s association to issue a statement on Friday calling for the immediate release of \u201cunjustly detained journalists\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Tewodros Asfaw has been detained by security forces for the second time in two months as Ethiopian government crackdown on non-state media professionals intensifies.\u00a0 Multiple media reports indicate, Tewodros was arrested from his home in Addis Ababa on Thursday. Tewodros a former staff at Abbay media and Addis Zeybe media outlets had recently founded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":441538,"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-441537","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\/tedd.jpg?fit=959%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1QRz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441537","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=441537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441539,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441537\/revisions\/441539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}