{"id":3679,"date":"2014-07-06T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T08:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2014-07-06T15:32:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T08:32:41","slug":"yemen-extradites-exiled-ethiopia-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/yemen-extradites-exiled-ethiopia-opposition-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen &#8216;extradites&#8217; exiled Ethiopia opposition leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exiled Ethiopian opposition leader with British citizenship, who was sentenced to death in absentia, has been extradited to Addis Ababa, according to his group.<\/p>\n<p>Andargachew Tsige, secretary-general of Ginbot 7 (labelled a terrorist organisation by the Ethiopian government), was arrested while in transit through Yemen last month.<\/p>\n<p>Britain has expressed &#8220;deep concern&#8221; about his fate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andargachew has been given for slaughter,&#8221; Ginbot 7 said in a statement on Friday, warning Yemen that it had made a &#8220;historic mistake&#8221;. Tsige is Ethiopian-born with British citizenship&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ethiopia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/07\/yemen-extradites-ethiopia-opposition-leader-201475581763494.html\" 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>An exiled Ethiopian opposition leader with British citizenship, who was sentenced to death in absentia, has been extradited to Addis Ababa, according to his group. Andargachew Tsige, secretary-general of Ginbot 7 (labelled a terrorist organisation by the Ethiopian government), was arrested while in transit through Yemen last month. Britain has expressed &#8220;deep concern&#8221; about his [&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":[258,256,2226,2228,4695,4716,1299,2225,2227,257,254,676],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-andargachew-tsige","tag-british-citizenship","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-exiled-ethiopian-opposition-leader","tag-ginbot-7","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorist-organisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","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=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/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=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}