{"id":8913,"date":"2014-08-04T02:09:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T06:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=8913"},"modified":"2015-02-04T07:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T12:04:48","slug":"ethiopian-blogger-files-120-million-countersuit-against-u-s-lawfirm-dla-piper-saudi-billionaire-al-amoudi-and-ethiopias-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8913","title":{"rendered":"Blogger files $120 million countersuit against Ethiopia\u2019s government, a Saudi billionaire, and U.S. law firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ethiopian-Review.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8921\" alt=\"Ethiopian-Review\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ethiopian-Review-300x232.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ethiopian-Review-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ethiopian-Review-220x170.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ethiopian-Review.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>ATLANTA (August 4, 2014) &#8211; A U.S.-based blogger who operates a popular Ethiopian news and opinion website has filed a $120 million counter lawsuit against the Government of Ethiopia, a major U.S. law firm named DLA Piper, Saudi billionaire Mohammed Al Amoudi and others on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The blogger, Mr. Elias Kifle, who writes on ethiopianreview.com, filed the suit in Atlanta at the U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia District.<\/p>\n<p>The suit names DLA Piper, Mr Mohammed Al Amoudi, Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia Mr Debretsion Gebremichael, Ethiopian government\u2019s chief of security Mr Getachew Assefa, and the Government of Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>In his suit, Mr Kifle alleges \u201ccivil rights violations,\u201d \u201cabuse of process,\u201d and \u201ceconomic harm.\u201d He accuses the defendants of serially harassing him, hindering his constitutionally protected work, causing emotional distress to his family, and causing severe economic harm to him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kifle also accuses DLA Piper, a large law firm with 4,000 lawyers, of extortion, racketeering and a relentless campaign of harassment on behalf of the Ethiopian government and its supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nFor more info: ethrev@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE ATLANTA (August 4, 2014) &#8211; A U.S.-based blogger who operates a popular Ethiopian news and opinion website has filed a $120 million counter lawsuit against the Government of Ethiopia, a major U.S. law firm named DLA Piper, Saudi<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8913\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[4993],"tags":[3456,3464,3459,3458,4967,3462,3463,3461,3457,3460],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}