On Saturday, we reported that the Ethiopian Teachers Association’s (ETA) office in Addis Ababa was surrounded and the head of the Addis Ababa chapter of the ETA, Ato Tesfaye Yirga, has been arrested.

We have now been informed that Ato Tesfaye is released after the DW Amharic Service reported about his arrest. The following is as reported by Ato Wondimu Mekonnen.

After the DW (German) Radio Amharic Service was alerted about the incident at the ETA office in Addis Ababa, they called the ETA Head Quarters and found out that Tesfaye Yirga, head of the Addis Ababa branch of the ETA, was taken away to an unknown destination and that the ETA office was surrounded by the Woyanne regime security agents. DW reported about the information they had gathered on Friday.  Upon hearing the DW broadcast and reports on web sites, the security chief went to the 5th Police Station where they detained Tesfaye, swore at him, and took him to Maekelawi (Central Station). The next morning, the same security chief dragged him out and told him to go home, after complaining about the news on DW Radio.

After being released, Tesfaye went straight to ETA office from where he him us about the news of his situation.

The ETA continues to face harassments. The woyanne kangaroo court has ordered the ETA leadership to hand over all the assets of the organisation to the Woyanne surrogate ETA. The ETA leadership has so far refused. They are risking imprisonment by defying the “court order”. In the mean time, they have appealed against the decision. The application of whether their appeal was appropriate or not has been sent to Judge Hagos Wolde.