{"id":448045,"date":"2023-05-27T08:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=448045"},"modified":"2023-05-27T08:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T12:48:47","slug":"deadly-crackdown-on-muslim-protestors-in-ethiopias-capital-leaves-at-least-two-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/448045","title":{"rendered":"Deadly crackdown on Muslim protestors in Ethiopia\u2019s capital leaves at least two dead\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A deadly crackdown on Muslim protestors in Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa left at least two people dead on Friday, multiple media reports indicate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The protests which started soon after Friday prayers in several mosques located the northern part of Addis Ababa saw running clashes between protestors and security forces who used baton charges, tear gas and live bullets against the protestors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement it issued on Friday evening, Addis Ababa Police said four other civilians and 52 police officers were injured in the unrest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Addis Ababa Police statement further said 114 people accused of having key roles in the \u201criot\u201d have been detained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Footage posted on social media showed riot police clashing with stone throwing protestors as well as banners held by protestors calling for authorities to cease demolitions of homes and mosques in the newly formed Shaggar administrative city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Separately, in a statement issued on Friday evening, Addis Ababa Islamic Affairs High Council asked for legal measures to be taken on security bodies who killed and injured Muslim protestors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorities in Oromia region launched last year, a mega city project, Shaggar city comprising of six cities surrounding Addis Ababa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since, that time, local authorities have been engaged in ongoing massive homes demolitions campaign which has sparked criticisms that its inhumane, discriminatory and arbitrary.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly crackdown on Muslim protestors in Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa left at least two people dead on Friday, multiple media reports indicate.\u00a0 The protests which started soon after Friday prayers in several mosques located the northern part of Addis Ababa saw running clashes between protestors and security forces who used baton charges, tear gas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":448046,"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-448045","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\/05\/mer3.jpg?fit=720%2C324&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1Syx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448045","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=448045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448047,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448045\/revisions\/448047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}