{"id":71627,"date":"2018-01-12T05:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T10:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?p=71627"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:44:10","slug":"ethiopian-prominent-opposition-leaders-get-prison-time-for-contempt-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/71627","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian prominent opposition leaders get prison time for contempt of court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-71628\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ethiopian-political-prisoner-Bekele-Gerba.jpg?resize=464%2C261\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" \/>(AP) &#8211; One of Ethiopia\u2019s most prominent opposition politicians has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court along with three others after they sang a protest song during proceedings.<br \/>\nBekele Gerba, former deputy head of the Oromo Federalist Congress party, protested after the court withdrew a previous ruling requiring Ethiopia\u2019s prime minister to appear as a defense witness. The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate says Bekele and the other defendants \u201cwreaked havoc.\u201d<br \/>\nBekele had been arrested in December 2015 after anti-government protests erupted in parts of the East African country. He was charged with terrorism offenses that later were changed to criminal charges.<br \/>\nHe was among the opposition figures expected to be released as part of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn\u2019s recent announcement to free some imprisoned politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) &#8211; One of Ethiopia\u2019s most prominent opposition politicians has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court along with three others after they sang a protest song during proceedings. Bekele Gerba, former deputy head of the Oromo Federalist Congress party, protested after the court withdrew a previous ruling requiring Ethiopia\u2019s prime [&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-71627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-iDh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71627","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=71627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264011,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71627\/revisions\/264011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}