Federal Police savagely attacked a female reporter named Tsigereda Hailu on Friday at the court house in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.
Tsigereda, a reporter for Rose, an entertainment newspaper, was at the court to cover singer Teddy Afro's court appearance.
After beating up the reporter, the police to her and a male journalist named Abrham Begizew, a reporter for Addis Neger newspaper, to jail. Both were released the same day after posting bail.
According to ER sources, the police attacked Tsigereda after accusing her of hiding an audio recorder in her purse.
The savage attack took place in front of other people who were at the court to attend Teddy's court appearance. Tsigereda was seen crying after the beating.
The court told Teddy Afro to return to the court next Friday.
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These people are like wounded animals, they bite and kick all the way to their grave. Lets shorten theirs and ours misery. Go-G7.
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July 5th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Everyone knows Fenderal Police are Animals. Give me a gun and I will show you who is the worse aninmal. These federal idiots only look intimidetating just because they got Guns that is it.
It is time to get armed just like the black panthers back in the day and protect our basic human rights.
July 5th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Who cares whether the person is a woman, an old lady, an old man, a sick person, a young boy, a toddler, a baby, a reporter, a doctor, a student or a professor; Meles’ brutal soldiers control the whole country by actions of this kind: beating, maiming, persecuting, jailing, and killing. Such things are their daily hobbies. The Ethiopian people by now unwillingly must be familiar with the undemocratic and unacceptable behaviors of Meles’ Federal police. It is too sad to see our young ladies being abused and beaten up by their own government, not just by the wealthy Arabs.
July 6th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
In Meles's democratic Ethiopia, the police should protect civilians and should not side niether the ruling or the opposition parties. That is what we expect from a civilised and democratic Ethiopia ruled by Meles!!.
You know, why Meles is full of contempt for Ethiopians. He was heard saying "these are people who paid to collect the dead bodies of their loved ones during the dergue period" why are they making noise now?
Our inaction is what is giving him more courage to opress us. They will continue to humiliate us if each of us in our little ways do not take action now.
It is even becoming embarassing to write comments and articles about the atrocities that is being meted out on us.
What else are we waiting for before we can show some courage to these bunch of hooligans?
Have we become immuned to all the inhuman treatments that we are receiving? Ah, this is dangerous!!!!!
July 7th, 2008 at 6:48 am
please shut up people! speacaily people who lives out side Ethiopia please shut up! until u do something don't make it hard for people who lives there. u all are already out of that fucken' crap but other people are still live there so if we can't change nothing at least make peace for the next generations. Other wise we just making it worse!! People who lives back home thinks people who lives out side that country can do every thing so they overact some times. All I am saying is that just remember the past time our parent's had who was the stupid gov. at that time Menege!! he was horoble i never compere Meles to that Deivl gov. So please leave the gov. alone and be honest and start over. Sure teddy was the love of our lives but he got drunk and killed a boy and run away and he still don't belive he did it becouse he was drunk and driving too fast with out alicence to get in to Kuku!! How tipicall!! so the gov. has nothing to do with his miss. HE killd a boy okay it was an accednt but he does't think he did it and run away. Now all we need to do is help teddy eo be free in my opinion he didn't do it but who knows may be he did it u see we don't know so let God handle it. I can see some of us belive that even if he did it let him be free! write?? wrong! very very wrong now we are a murder too any body who support akiller is amurder too so once again shut up!!!! I mean it it will bring war not peace so please just back off.. Thank you every body hoping our king teddy got freedom and see him agin!! I love teddy so much better than any singer in this crazy ground!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 17th, 2008 at 8:34 pm