{"id":32529,"date":"2012-01-27T16:54:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32529"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T16:09:06","slug":"ethiopian-dissident-blogger-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32529","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Jailed dissident blogger may face death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ethiopia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ethiopia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ethiopian<\/a> dissident blogger Eskinder Nega will <a title=\"CPJ - Judge confirms charges against Ethiopian dissident blogger \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2012\/01\/ethiopian-blogger-risks-death-penalty-as-judge-con.php\" target=\"_blank\">stand trial<\/a> in March for terrorism charges, a federal high court judge ruled this week. He could face the death penalty\u00a0if convicted.\u00a0Nega and five other journalists were last November <a title=\"CPJ - Ethiopia charges six journalists with terrorism \" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/11\/ethiopia-charges-six-journalists-with-terrorism.php\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> with providing support to<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Ginbot 7, a banned opposition movement that the government formally designated a terrorist entity under the 2009\u00a0anti-terrorism law last year. At this week&#8217;s hearing, the judge confirmed all six charges for two of those accused and dismissed all but one charge against three others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed Ethiopian dissident blogger Eskinder Nega will stand trial in March for terrorism charges, a federal high court judge ruled this week. He could face the death penalty\u00a0if convicted.\u00a0Nega and five other journalists were last November charged with providing support to\u00a0Ginbot 7, a banned opposition movement that the government formally designated a terrorist entity under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[540,584,585,581],"tags":[4244,214,3820,7394,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32529"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79136,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32529\/revisions\/79136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}