{"id":68824,"date":"2018-01-04T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?guid=bd934eae24ddc657a939427030e4ad12"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:45:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:45:55","slug":"ethiopias-regime-denies-all-political-prisoners-will-be-freed-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/68824","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#039;s regime denies all political prisoners will be freed &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wzMiXdJEZEk\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nEthiopia&#8217;s government has denied that all political prisoners will be freed, saying that only some imprisoned politicians will be pardoned.<br \/>\nAn aide to the prime minister said a mistranslation led to him being quoted as saying that all political prisoners would be freed to promote dialogue.<br \/>\nThe prime minster also said a detention centre, allegedly used as a torture chamber, would be shut.<br \/>\nEthiopia has been hit by a wave of political unrest in recent years.<br \/>\nAmnesty International welcomed the initial announcement, saying it could signal &#8220;the end of an era of bloody repression in Ethiopia&#8221; &#8211; although it warned that the closure of the Maekelawi detention centre should not be used to &#8220;whitewash&#8221; the &#8220;horrifying&#8221; events which took place under its roof. [&#8230;] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-42570174\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s government has denied that all political prisoners will be freed, saying that only some imprisoned politicians will be pardoned. An aide to the prime minister said a mistranslation led to him being quoted as saying that all political prisoners would be freed to promote dialogue. The prime minster also said a detention centre, allegedly [&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":[2991],"class_list":["post-68824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-hU4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68824","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=68824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264027,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68824\/revisions\/264027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}