{"id":83457,"date":"2018-02-14T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethiopianreview.com\/index\/?guid=ad5b867be2d915d8863da71136dda862"},"modified":"2019-02-05T02:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T07:40:25","slug":"ethiopian-journalists-eskinder-nega-and-woubshet-taye-released-from-prison-cpj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/83457","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian journalists Eskinder Nega and Woubshet Taye released from prison &#8211; CPJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cpj.org\/Eskinder.jpg?resize=550%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"352\" \/><br \/>\nThe Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes news that Ethiopian journalists Eskinder Nega and Woubshet Taye are free from prison after each served nearly seven years.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are pleased that Eskinder Nega and Woubshet Taye are finally free since their arrests and convictions were shameful miscarriages of justice,&#8221; said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Angela Quintal. &#8220;We now urge the Ethiopian government to drop charges against other journalists and to implement the reforms needed for a free press to flourish.&#8221;<br \/>\nWoubshet and Eskinder were both arrested in 2011 and convicted in 2012 in unrelated cases. CPJ research shows that the terror-related charges the journalists faced were fabricated in retaliation for their critical reporting.<br \/>\nEskinder, a prominent columnist and editor of now-shuttered newspapers, and Woubshet, a former editor with the weekly newspaper Awramba Times, were among 746 prisoners that the Ethiopian government last week announced would be pardoned, according to news reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes news that Ethiopian journalists Eskinder Nega and Woubshet Taye are free from prison after each served nearly seven years. &#8220;We are pleased that Eskinder Nega and Woubshet Taye are finally free since their arrests and convictions were shameful miscarriages of justice,&#8221; said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator Angela Quintal. &#8220;We [&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-83457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-lI5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83457","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=83457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264013,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83457\/revisions\/264013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}