{"id":38057,"date":"2012-06-28T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=38057"},"modified":"2012-07-13T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T13:38:45","slug":"ethiopia-24-activists-and-writers-convicted-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=38057","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: 24 activists and writers convicted of terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>24 activists and writers, including well-known dissident and blogger <a title=\"Index: Eskinder Nega\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/eskinder-nega\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eskinder Nega<\/a>, were convicted for terrorism by an Ethiopian court yesterday (27 June). The presiding judge reportedly <a title=\"All Africa: Ethiopia: Eskinder Nega, Five Exiled Journalists Convicted of Terrorism\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201206280361.html\" target=\"_blank\">accused<\/a> Nega of attempting to spark popular protests with his blogging and speeches. Nega criticised the country&#8217;s tendency to use its vague anti-terrorism laws to silence dissent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 activists and writers, including well-known dissident and blogger Eskinder Nega, were convicted for terrorism by an Ethiopian court yesterday (27 June). The presiding judge reportedly accused Nega of attempting to spark popular protests with his blogging and speeches. Nega criticised the country&#8217;s tendency to use its vague anti-terrorism laws to silence dissent. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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],"tags":[4244,3820,7394,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38063,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions\/38063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}