{"id":4092,"date":"2013-09-02T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:20:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:20:17","slug":"ethiopian-government-rejects-presidential-pardon-for-jailed-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4092","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Government Rejects Presidential Pardon for Jailed Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Woubshet-Taye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Jailed Journalist Woubshet Taye\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Woubshet-Taye.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Woubshet-Taye.jpg 267w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Woubshet-Taye-220x247.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn\u2019s government has rejected a presidential pardon for journalist, Woubshet Taye, who was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Taye\u2019s wife told a reporter from Arwamba times that the ministry of Justice had sent a rejection letter to her husband and two other people \u2013 opposition leader Zerihun Gebregziabher and Hirut Kifle. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Taye was jailed in January 2012 for allegedly supporting \u201cterrorist\u201d groups as defined in the country\u2019s vague anti-terrorism law. <\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has however pardoned Swedish journalists who were also accused of assisting outlawed rebel groups. This is despite a previous assertion by former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi that \u201cSwedish and Ethiopians are equal before our justice system; we both bleed the same color blood\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Following the rejection for Mr Taye\u2019s pardon, many Ethiopians feel that the pardon legislation is being applied selectively. <\/p>\n<p>Woubshet Taye was the former deputy editor for the Awramba times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn\u2019s government has rejected a presidential pardon for journalist, Woubshet Taye, who was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment earlier this year. Mr Taye\u2019s wife told a reporter from Arwamba times that the ministry of Justice had sent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4092\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}