{"id":449916,"date":"2023-06-10T06:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T10:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=449916"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:26:45","slug":"prominent-ethiopian-filmmaker-award-show-organizer-arrested-by-security-forces-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/449916","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Ethiopian filmmaker, award show organizer arrested by security forces: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prominent Ethiopian filmmaker and organizer of the annual Ethiopian domestic film award show, Gumma film awards, Yonas Berhane has been arrested by security forces, local reports indicate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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According to a Social Media Post by Prominent Ethiopian Journalist, Elias Meseret, Yonas Berhane was arrested along with his wife by security forces on Friday late evening in Addis Ababa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yonas wife was later released, but Yonas is still in detention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yonas who has around two decades\u2019 experience in filmmaking has been organizing the Gumma Film Awards since 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ethiopian authorities haven\u2019t so far provided explanation for the ongoing detention of Yonas Berhane.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But, the arrest came only hours after a makeup protest by a female journalist and social media personality, Filagot Abraham nickname \u201cFilagot Magna\u201d at the Gumma Film award ceremony held in Skylight hotel in Addis Ababa earlier on Friday went viral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Filagot had painted herself with red ink on forehead on the shape of a bullet wound as well as on her lips in the shape of a stitched mouth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Elias Meseret, the organizers of the Gumma Film award show were interrogated by security forces afterwards who wanted to know the whereabouts of Filagot Abraham.<\/span><\/p>\n

Filagot a program show host at the local Abay television who also is a teacher at a local university is a prominent Tiktok blogger with more than 426,000 followers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Mereja.com sources an arrest warrant has been issued for Filagot who was preparing to be a judge at a local talent show program scheduled to be broadcast soon on the state owned Ethiopian Television.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prominent Ethiopian filmmaker and organizer of the annual Ethiopian domestic film award show, Gumma film awards, Yonas Berhane has been arrested by security forces, local reports indicate. According to a Social Media Post by Prominent Ethiopian Journalist, Elias Meseret, Yonas Berhane was arrested along with his wife by security forces on Friday late evening in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":449917,"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":[5845],"class_list":["post-449916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/347262483_802227591259682_1457697629447992552_n.jpg?fit=843%2C843&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1T2I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449916","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=449916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450162,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449916\/revisions\/450162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}