{"id":3615,"date":"2014-07-05T10:50:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2014-07-05T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T03:50:50","slug":"ethiopian-muslims-protest-demanding-the-release-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/ethiopian-muslims-protest-demanding-the-release-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Muslims protest demanding the release leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa &#8211; Hundreds of Muslims protesters demonstrated in Ethiopia on Friday, demanding the release of 17 of their leaders jailed under terrorism charges last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the government is doing doesn&#8217;t solve the problem, rather it will worsen the situation,&#8221; said protestor Mohammed Seman, speaking at the demonstration following busy Friday prayers at a popular Addis Ababa mosque.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders were arrested last August, following months of protests by Muslims accusing the government of interfering in religious affairs. They are currently on trial for intending to &#8220;carry out acts of terrorism&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ethiopia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/Ethiopian-Muslims-protest-20140704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Ethiopia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/\">Ethiopia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa &#8211; Hundreds of Muslims protesters demonstrated in Ethiopia on Friday, demanding the release of 17 of their leaders jailed under terrorism charges last year. &#8220;What the government is doing doesn&#8217;t solve the problem, rather it will worsen the situation,&#8221; said protestor Mohammed Seman, speaking at the demonstration following busy Friday prayers at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[2152,258,256,4695,4716,1299,2150,257,2153,254,2151],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-addis-ababa-mosque","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-muslims-protesters","tag-news","tag-protests-by-muslims","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorism-charges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}