The Addis Ababa-based Amharic language newspaper Awramba Times has a detailed report about the court appearance today of the ongoing of secret trial of suspected coup plotters in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa.

After one month in detention, the suspects are still not allowed to visit their families, and except a few of them, their identities are kept secret.

Today, all of them arrived at the Arada district court in Addis Ababa in covered pickup trucks surrounded by heavily armed federal police troopers. There were over 250 family members outside the court, and none of them is allowed to see the detainees.

Several minutes later, the court ordered the detainees to come back to court in 2 weeks. [read more in Amharic, pdf]