{"id":3989,"date":"2014-07-12T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2014-07-12T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T07:20:31","slug":"ethiopia-pm-hailemariam-defends-andargachew-tsege-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/ethiopia-pm-hailemariam-defends-andargachew-tsege-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia PM Hailemariam defends Andargachew Tsege arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia had a moral obligation to arrest the opposition leader who was controversially extradited from Yemen last month, Ethiopian leader Hailemariam Desalegn has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Andargachew Tsege is a Trojan horse for the Eritrean government to destabilise this country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to death in 2009 while in exile for plotting a coup.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign governments could express their concern, but the man would be dealt with according to the law, the PM said.<\/p>\n<p>Andargachew, a UK national, is secretary-general of Ethiopia&#8217;s banned Ginbot 7 movement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ethiopia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28272112\" 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>Ethiopia had a moral obligation to arrest the opposition leader who was controversially extradited from Yemen last month, Ethiopian leader Hailemariam Desalegn has told the BBC. &#8220;Andargachew Tsege is a Trojan horse for the Eritrean government to destabilise this country,&#8221; he said. He was sentenced to death in 2009 while in exile for plotting 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":[258,256,2592,4695,4716,1299,2591,2227,1702,257,2593,254],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-andargachew-tsege","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-extradited-from-yemen","tag-ginbot-7","tag-hailemariam-desalegn","tag-news","tag-plotting-a-coup","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","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=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/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=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}