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Jawar reportedly said he doesn’t care where they arrest him
borkena
September 24, 2020
A court in Lideta, Addis Ababa, ruled on Thursday that Jawar Mohammed and 17 other suspects would be transferred to a prison from the police station.
The defendants appeared in court to hear the charges, but this did not happen as two of them (Dejene Tafa and Mesteward Temam) did not appear.
Lawyers for Jawar Mohammed and Bekele Gerba opposed the court ruling to transfer the suspects from the police station to prison facilities.
They demanded special protection within prison facilities that the prosecutor rejected as inappropriate on the grounds that there should not be preferential treatment among citizens.
A report from local news sources indicated that the defendants expressed their opinion that they are indifferent to the places in the prison where they are being held.
As for the defendants in absentia (Tsegaye Ararasa, Dejene Gutema and Birhanemeskel Abebe Segni), the court ordered the Federal Police Commission to bring them to justice. Two of them are in the United States, while Tsegaye Ararasa is in Australia.
Jawar Mohammed and the co-defendants are linked to the massacre that claimed more than 240 lives in Ethiopia’s Oromo region in early July 2020. In addition to the terrorism charges, Jawar faces charges of collecting fraudulent information through the use of an unauthorized satellite receiver.
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