{"id":68465,"date":"2018-01-03T13:31:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?guid=477625bebf2bdefc22d42e5fb3c9c23c"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:46:15","slug":"ethiopias-regime-says-it-will-free-all-political-prisoners-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/68465","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#039;s Regime Says It Will Free All Political Prisoners &#8211; NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ethiopian-political-prison.jpg?resize=780%2C520\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-68553\" \/><br \/>\nEthiopia&#8217;s prime minister has announced that the country will free all of its political prisoners, pardon them and close a notorious prison.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a surprising turnaround for a government that has launched a sweeping crackdown on dissent and had not previously admitted that it is even holding political prisoners.<br \/>\n&#8220;Political prisoners that are facing prosecutions and are already under arrest will be released,&#8221; Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said at a press conference, according to The Associated Press. &#8220;And the notorious prison cell that was traditionally called Maekelawi will be closed down and turned into a museum.&#8221; He added that the goal is to &#8220;foster national reconciliation.&#8221; [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2018\/01\/03\/575290413\/ethiopia-says-it-will-free-all-of-its-political-prisoners\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s prime minister has announced that the country will free all of its political prisoners, pardon them and close a notorious prison. It&#8217;s a surprising turnaround for a government that has launched a sweeping crackdown on dissent and had not previously admitted that it is even holding political prisoners. &#8220;Political prisoners that are facing prosecutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-68465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-hOh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264020,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68465\/revisions\/264020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}