The Woyanne kangaroo court in Ethiopia has sentenced popular Ethiopian singer Tewodros Kassahun (Teddy Afro) to 6 years in prison today after convicting him of hit-and-run and manslaughter. He is also ordered to pay 18,000 birr in fines.
Judge Leul Gebremariam, who also conducted the sham ‘treason’ trial of Kinijit leaders 2 years ago, prevented Teddy from making a statement after the sentencing, angrily telling him to get out, according to EMF sources.
Leul Gebremariam is not a real judge. He is Woyanne cadre who is assigned to conduct show trials against individuals who are deemed enemy by the ruling party.
Thousands of Teddy fans had gathered outside of the court that was surrounded by heavily armed Federal Police troopers. There crowed dispersed with no major incident after Teddy was transported back to prison.
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* Teddy Afro’s lawyer arrested
* Teddy Afro – Another victim of Ethiopia’s ruthless dictator
28 thoughts on “Teddy Afro railroaded to prison for 6 years by kangaroo court”
Teddy, I feel sorry for you but I could assure you that you are not the first one to go down that road.
http://oromantic.com/2008/11/14/jailhouse-blues/
Welcome to the club!
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“prevented Teddy from making a statement after the sentencing, angrily telling him to get out, according to EMF sources.”
That says it all. A fair judge would have given Teddy a chnce. The judge is more emotional that doing his job right. I am sure all Ethiopians will remember this sad day. The phony judge and his woyane mafia bosses will have judgement day coming, where hell is waiting for them.
i am so sad for teddy and others in jail for nothing.we have to stand up and unite and fight.
“… You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” Clarence Darrow.
I think this is a bold signal reminding of us that it is time to act not only for Teddy’s freedom, but for ourselves too…in every possible way for ourown sake.
All the injustice committed inside and outside of the court room is against to all who call themselves Ethiopians. Until its end, since it is filled with absolute hatred to the very state it occupied, that is how an alien regime behaves and no one should be surprised.
Woyane’s days are numbered, the days of liberation is imminent, and history indeed shall mark its hero forever: including this martyr.
Death to Woyane!
Death to Alamudi!
Death to Aba Paulos!
Bertu
so sad but at least it was not the maximum (15 years). Pray that God gives him the strength in those 6 years.
Tedy you are free , dont worry since we all know that you are innocent.
I would not surprised at all since all of us know that there is no independent court in ethiopia now, and with out independent court we should not expect anything from weyane criminal groups.
Mengistu was killing his view opponents any where he wants too, and
Weyane uses the cangaro court ” Stalin Style” to kill and harass his view opponets.
The fake court that is led by Meles Sytanawi has passed a sentence on Tedy afro,
Now, the so called weyane survant (mediators) prof. Yishak and the other weyane puppets get a new job.
Guess what?
weyane will go through these idiot and HODAM mediators to pardon Teddy Afro, if weyane thinks the ethiopian people will coordinate again to pressureized weyane as they did for kinijit leaders….
at the same time I can not beleive that most ethiopians in diaspora kept silent until their door is prsonally knocked by weyane while they can start condeming weyane very outregeously when their neighboorhood is highly affected by the weyane daily repression.
Get up and stand up for your right…
Everyone needs to stand up against the weyane tyranny regardless of any previous good or bad experince since there is not going to be a better time to make our solidarity and destroy the weyane criminal group network to make our country peace and our people free form weyane evil regime.
Join the movement of G7 ….dont wait……
Stop listening the dirty poor propaganda of idiot hailu shawel and EPRP cultish retiree groups….
come together to join the movement of Ginbot 7 and liberate ethiopia from weyane once and for all…
death to all weyanes…
This is a hero – who is rottig in Jail….woye wondemachen!! Woyane Afer belu – zerachu yeregem.
what if he’s guilty?
no no no. enough is enough
woyanne is too arogant and will never listen to anybody.Terrorize,arrest,kill,murder are woyanne nick names. they think they can do all these crimes forever. but, nothing forever,and one day their time will up and get their verdict from the people of ethiopia.
what happened to teddy is no different than woyannes criminals doing it over and over again for the last 18 years. the self annointed dictators will do the same as much as they can till they throw to jail or kill any one challenges or opposes them.
please,those of you who still blacked out your mind and hoping to get mercy from dictators,come back to your senses to stand together to free ethiopia. else,it will be just counting every day how many people have been thrown to jail or terrorized or killed. as long as woynne is in power more to die,starve,throw to jail or to be killed. that is what woyanne is. teddy thrown to jail…shuldn’t be just a news. please feel it like it happened to us. it should remeber us every day what woyanne means.
we should not foregt it, and feel it everyday like it happened to us,,all those our brothers and sisters,suffering in jail across ethiopia.pray and fight for freedom. To see the day that ethiopia is free once and forever.
Injustice indeed–an innocent man is convicted by a bunch of criminal Woyannes. It is nauseating to witness the guilty Woyannes roaming around in our country and punishing innocent people. If I feel this much anger and disappointment; I can not even imagine what his family going through. My heart goes to Teddy and his family.
DEATH TO CRIMINAL WOYANNES NOW AND FOREVER!!!
All disintegration seekers and teletafi political parties: please don’t tell us that Woyanies are Ethiopians and legal oppositions. From day one, they stood against the interest of Ethiopians. Do I have to list the mountain of evidences available in regards to the number of people they eliminated by clandestine murder and long term prison judgments passed? Do we have to list the genocides they did all over the country? What are we waiting for? Do we want a monk to come out of Waldba Monastery to tell us that we would be blessed if we get rid of Woyanies? Why is it difficult to rise up as one and eradicate the virus of the Ethiopian nation state? Do we, a a nation, love to live in sickness?
It is a pitty to see this young artist again being a victim of this rutless gang group.Will the day come were we all see these pupets paying back for all these crimes?
I am so sick of this mindless Meles, I want to kill Meles and die ……so the next generation of Ethiopian will have freedom. There is No freedom in Ethiopia.Enough is Enough Dam Meles
Why dont the so called opposition party leaders go on street now to protest? Thousands of of ethiopians would follow them.
So the only way out of this mess is armed struggle.
The main issue is about those massacred in the streets of Addis, about the 20,000 political prisoners, about Free media, free press, about dictatorship, about brutality of the regime in ethiopia and the war in Ogaden etc…
Well, if you followed Teddy’s case for that last 2 years, then you would know it. and here are some questions that i want you to answer.
1-Why didn’t they sentence him immediately they took him before 2 years?
2-How couldn’t the police follow him and catch him immediately if he saw him hitting instead of coming as a wittness after 2 years?
3-Why did the doctor in the hospital create mistake on the dating of the accident? is that a coincidence too?
4-why did the dates on the hospital documents happened to be wrong?
5-why was he not given the guarantor right as any other similar crimes?
6-Why were police asking for id cardss for trial attendants especially on his case?
7-why was Teddy sent to the same judge who was following political prisonor’s cases?
TPLF regime acts as if real justice and constitution in ethiopia. Are we so fool to watch and believe this weyane Drama?
Don’t expect justice from Woyanne, as much as I feel sorry for Teddy Afro he is only one of the daily victims of Woyanne who dared to speak up or happen to belong to the wrong tribe. It is time to raise arms and fight for your freedom, if you are in the diaspora and young it is time to support the armed opposition groups or go join the opposition groups to fight for the rights of the people of Ethiopia, if you are an older person it is time to join the political efforts and contribute all you can to one of the opposition groups to hasten the demise of Woyanne. Time of wondering is over, it is time to put up or shut up.
All of the people who responded here didn’t talk about the possibility that Teddy may have killed a poor, unknown (but equally known to the Creator) ethiopian. Teddy is a single ethiopian, no more no less. So are all other ethiopians.
All the “weyane” that you talk about has no substance. You know you have been saying these for years; it just doesn’t work. So I say, “Come to your senses, Think then talk”.
Every body is created equal, be it the poor or the pop singer.
Just to add some point to Yewbdar’s comment.
Okay let’s assume Teddy is guilty. They charged him with two counts. One for killing a man and the other is for hit and run. How in the hell that these charges cost 6 years prison only?
This will contradict with our assumption. So we can easily prove that Teddy is not guilty based on their own law. Don’t fool us Kangaroo court.
Betam Yasazinal . Letefat yemetu selhone kensu bizu metebek yelebenim. Egam yerasashenen dersha mewetat aleben and honen menesatena taglen wutet mamtat aleben geze kemefget.May God Bless Tedy and his family.
Why are you people so mad about Teddy’s imprisonment? Don’t you understand that no ONLY Teddy but the whole Ethiopian population are sentenced to 3 distructive sentences by Legesse Z, his masters, and the rest of weyane stooges. If you haven’t followed the trend of weyanes sentence for Ethiopians then I will be glad to remind you; sentence #1- KILL ALL BY ETHIOPIANS BY GUNS OR IMPRISONMENT, #2- KILL ALL ETHIOPIANS BY LIES THROUGH ALL AVAILABLE MEDIA AND OTHER PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANS, AND #3- DIVIDE AND RULE ETHIOPIANS UNTIL THE WHOLE ETHIOPIA BECOMES YUGOETHIOPIA! ETHIOPIA WAS SENTECED TO THE ABOVE VERDICTS WHILE WEYANE WERE IN THE AIGA JUNGLE AND NOW WE ARE WITNESSING THE JUNGLE SENTENCING! LETS PRAY FOR THESE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND PEOPLE FROM THE MERCENARIES OF THE WEST AND AIGAME!
The news about Tedy Afro jail sentence is all over Major international media. Why weyane servant AIGA forum did not
puplished it? Are they ashamed about the Woyane Kangarro court & Weyanne drama!
If they are serving Ethiopian Community as they Claim, why they did not mention about the Dec 5 news event?
This is one of minor evedence that AIGA is a one side
Weyanne web site..
Hi fellow Ethiopians! They want Tedy in Prison for 6 years. Dont u think that it has meaning ? Meaning he will be in prison for the coming two consecutive elections. Because if Tedy is free from now on, I am sure he will be able to mobilize the whole Ethiopians and Woyane will be back to Dedebit soon. So Woyane is making sure that they will be in power at least at least for 10 years!!!!!!!! Then they will find another solution to rule the country after the guranted 10 years. Now Woyane fears Tedy more than the so called opposition leaders.
God Bless Ethiopia
You know what, now teddy will be released soon by so called shemagles after he admit that he commited that crime and sign the paper. This time woyanes technique is tp prison some one give harsh verdict and soon make him admiit the sin and release. The technique is intended to create suspicion among people towards the victim.The technique worked in kingit leaders so would be applied to others too.
I feel now even more the pain of the people of Ethiopia. This is happening in many parts of the poor and starved Africa, what makes it worse in Ethiopia is, it has the smell of ethnic marginalization, also known as Aparthied in the old South Africa.
As long as power is being wielded and controlled by a minority ethnic gangs known as Woyanies, there will be no justice or peace in Ethiopia. This has happened before, it is happening to many now,and it will happen tomorrow, as long as Woyanies are in power.
Peace and love to the people of Ethiopia,
and justice to Teddy.
Asmarino
It’s our habit to express sympathy and condolence to the victims or their families.We saw this when Professor Asrat,Laureat Tsegaye Gebre Medhin, Assefa Maru died.The list is long. I chose to be brief to save your to save your time.
We know how mourn or grieve but not to take a consolidated action against the murderous regime.I dont want to hear any word but action! Action! Action!
In Tedy’s case, It is a small price to pay when compared to hundreds of children’s, young and old Ethiopians who are machine gunned in front of the world by TPLF Agazi NAZI not long ago.
Some times I do not understand my fellow Ethiopian. We are so naive, we still expect Woyane to give our people justice and fairness to all. Are we a dreamer?
TPLF never stand for Ethiopia or for a democracy. Their mission is to divide our people by ethnicity, region, and religion to steal our resources what ever we have as a poor nation, for their own personal benefit while we are arguing and fighting with each other. My friends, Is it not time to wake up from deep sleep of 17 years?
We all know when Tedy sang the song “Yasteserial” he will be on Woyanes hit list. If you listen to his song, “ASRA SEBAT AMET BTEKOMEW KUMTA “ “ADIS NEGUS INJI MECHE LEWT META” etc. Yes, he did get to their nerve and they have to find a good case to punish him with out a major public outrage.
1. They created an alleged victim from Gojam, so specially the Amharas will fight each other on the issue either “Guilty” or “Not Guilty”. They know Ethiopians are a just people regardless of Tedy’s popularity.
2. The bottom line is if Tedy were guilty, wouldn’t you think he would apply for asylum and remain in America?
FREEDOM FOR MY PEOPLE!
TIGRIANS MUST JOIN HAND WITH THE REST OF ETHIOPIANS!
ONE ETHIOPIA UNDER GOD!