{"id":212278,"date":"2016-05-07T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T15:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=212278"},"modified":"2016-05-07T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T15:15:04","slug":"ethiopian-activist-charged-with-terrorism-over-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=212278","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian activist charged with terrorism over Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Ethiopia has charged a social media activist for inciting violence and other terror-related offenses citing Facebook posts as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Yonathan Tesfaye, a former spokesman for the opposition Blue Party, was charged Wednesday by Ethiopia&#8217;s Federal High Court. If convicted, he could face a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Yonathan was detained by Ethiopian security forces in December at the height of violent protests in the Oromo community over an alleged plan by the government to grab their land.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups say the Ethiopian government is using sweeping anti-terror laws to crack down on those critical of the regime.<\/p>\n<p>Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty&#8217;s regional chief, said Yonathan spoke against a possible land grab in Oromia, which is not a crime and is certainly not terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Fox News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Ethiopia has charged a social media activist for inciting violence and other terror-related offenses citing Facebook posts as evidence. Yonathan Tesfaye, a former spokesman for the opposition Blue Party, was charged Wednesday by Ethiopia&#8217;s Federal High Court. If convicted, he could face a death sentence. Yonathan was detained by Ethiopian security forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":203502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}