{"id":10750,"date":"2016-09-26T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10750"},"modified":"2016-09-26T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:54:05","slug":"ethiopian-actor-seeks-asylum-in-america-after-fleeing-due-to-repeated-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10750","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Actor Seeks Asylum in America After Fleeing due to Repeated Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-37472085\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian actor Znah-Bzu Tsegaye has on Monday sought asylum in the US after leaving Ethiopia about two months ago, Voice of America reported.<\/p>\n<p>The popular actor was in the weekly soap opera &#8220;Sew Le Sew&#8221; on Ethiopian state television.<\/p>\n<p>Znah-Bzu Tsegaye left Ethiopia because of &#8220;repeated harassment and for being Amhara,&#8221; Zehabesha reported.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch said security forces killed at least 100 people at protests in the Amhara region in August but the government denies this.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Voice of America&#8217;s Amharic service, the actor said Ethiopian security forces had carried out &#8220;atrocious actions&#8221; and he had decided not to return home until the &#8220;regime is changed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is sad to respond with bullets to people&#8217;s demand for their rights,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>At the root of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10655\">recent demonstrations in Amhara <\/a>is a request by representatives from the Welkait Amhara Identity Committee that their land, which is currently administered by the Tigray regional state, be moved into the neighbouring Amhara region.<\/p>\n<p>The Oromo people in Ethiopia have also been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10645\">protesting against the government<\/a>, saying they have been excluded politically and economically.<\/p>\n<p>[Photo by <a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to John Iglar's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/j_iglar\/\">John Iglar<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: BBC News Ethiopian actor Znah-Bzu Tsegaye has on Monday sought asylum in the US after leaving Ethiopia about two months ago, Voice of America reported. The popular actor was in the weekly soap opera &#8220;Sew Le Sew&#8221; on Ethiopian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10750\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[142,4967,4927,4926],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Ethiopian-Actor-Seeks-Asylum-in-America-After-Fleeing-due-to-Repeated-Harassment.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10755,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10750\/revisions\/10755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}