{"id":451835,"date":"2018-09-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiK2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmJiYy5jb20vYWZyaXF1ZS9yZWdpb24tNDU2MzgzODjSAS9odHRwczovL3d3dy5iYmMuY29tL2FmcmlxdWUvcmVnaW9uLTQ1NjM4Mzg4LmFtcA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:37:17","slug":"amnesty-international-condemns-mass-arrests-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/451835","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty International condemns mass arrests in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late September 2018, <strong>Amnesty International<\/strong> publicly condemned waves of mass arrests in Ethiopia amid ethnic violence and security crackdowns\u2014warning that arbitrary detention was undermining the year\u2019s reform narrative.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-365541\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Amnesty-International-logo.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amnesty International condemns mass arrests in Ethiopia\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>BBC Francophone and rights monitors described large-scale roundups that recalled earlier states of emergency even as political prisoners from the prior era were being released. The contradiction\u2014opening and repressing at once\u2014became a defining feature of the period.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as human-rights reference: mass arrest statistics, due process, and whether \u201claw and order\u201d campaigns again became a substitute for political settlement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/countries\/africa\/ethiopia\/\">Amnesty International<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/afrique\">BBC Afrique<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International condamne les arrestations de masse en \u00c9thiopie&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":365541,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-451835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Amnesty-International-logo.jpg?fit=510%2C285&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1TxF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451835","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599928,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451835\/revisions\/599928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}