{"id":449919,"date":"2023-06-10T07:01:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=449919"},"modified":"2023-06-10T07:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T11:02:31","slug":"prominent-ethiopian-journalist-tewodros-asfaw-released-from-2-months-detention-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/449919","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Ethiopian journalist Tewodros Asfaw released from 2 months\u2019 detention: Sources\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prominent Ethiopian journalist Tewodros Asfaw has been released from prison after around two months\u2019 detention, Mereja.com sources indicated on Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tewodors who was detained by security forces in mid-April was released after a court granted him a 15,000 birr (276 U.S. dollars) bail money, Mereja.com sources further indicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tewodros is among dozens of journalists, academics, social media personalities and ordinary citizens arrested by Ethiopian authorities in April and later accused of terror offences.\u00a0<\/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<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tewodros had also been arrested in February spending several days in prison before being granted bail by another court.\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 recently calling for the immediate release of \u201cunjustly detained journalists\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent Ethiopian journalist Tewodros Asfaw has been released from prison after around two months\u2019 detention, Mereja.com sources indicated on Saturday.\u00a0 Tewodors who was detained by security forces in mid-April was released after a court granted him a 15,000 birr (276 U.S. dollars) bail money, Mereja.com sources further indicated. Tewodros is among dozens of journalists, academics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":449921,"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":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-449919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/352804177_6163748203712373_8102880549630044849_n.jpg?fit=720%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1T2L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449919","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=449919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449923,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449919\/revisions\/449923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}