{"id":69455,"date":"2018-01-05T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?p=69455"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:44:58","slug":"ethiopias-regime-denies-release-of-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/69455","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#039;s regime denies release of political prisoners"},"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-prisoners.jpg?resize=780%2C520\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-69456\" \/><br \/>\nEthiopia wants to close its most famous torture prison, but there is no general amnesty for political prisoners, the government said. A premier speech had been translated incorrectly.<br \/>\nIt sounded like hopeful news: On Wednesday, Ethiopia&#8217;s head of government allegedly announced in a speech that the East African country wanted to release all political prisoners.<br \/>\nOne day later, the government clarifies: A crucial passage in the speech of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has been translated incorrectly, reports the BBC.<br \/>\nAmnesty International had welcomed the alleged decision as a signal for the &#8220;end of an era of bloody repression&#8221;. According to the organization&#8217;s Ethiopia expert, Fisseha Tekle, human rights in the country would only have a chance if all abuses were investigated and those responsible were charged. The closure of the Maekelawi Prison is to be welcomed, but the atrocities there must be investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia wants to close its most famous torture prison, but there is no general amnesty for political prisoners, the government said. A premier speech had been translated incorrectly. It sounded like hopeful news: On Wednesday, Ethiopia&#8217;s head of government allegedly announced in a speech that the East African country wanted to release all political prisoners. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-i4f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69455","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=69455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264023,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69455\/revisions\/264023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}