Kangaroo court judge Leul Gebremariam has ordered the arrest of Teddy Afro’s lawyer, Ato Million Assefa today. On the judge’s order, and publishers of AddisNeger newspaper, Ato Mesfin Negash and Ato Girma Tesfaw, have also been arrested today in Addis Ababa, according to Ethiopian Review sources.
Judge Leul ordered the arrest of the lawyer and the newspaper publishers after they published a report last Saturday that Ato Million was about to lodge a complaint against the judge and the translator for Menilik Hospital to the board of judicial administration.
Publisher Mesfin Negash and Deputy Publisher Girma Tesfaw were picked up by police in the morning and brought before Judge Leul for hearing in the afternoon. After answering some questions, the judge released the deputy publisher, but ordered the chief publisher to return to jail and come back to court tomorrow.
The lawyer, Ato Million Assefa, was arrested later tonight local time.
Ato Million is a Woyanne sympathizer who is also said to be one of authors of the new restrictive press law that was recently passed by the rubber-stamp parliament.
Teddy Afro’s friends and fans are puzzled why Million was hired to represent the popular singer. Legal expert say that Million has so far done a poor job of representing Teddy in and outside of the court.
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Elias, here it is in Amharic:
Ethiopia Zare (ሰኞ ሐምሌ 28 ቀን 2000 ዓ.ም. August 04, 2008)፦ የቴዲ አፍሮ ጠበቃ አቶ ሚሊዮን አሰፋ የቴዲን ጉዳይ የሚያዩትን ዳኛ ልዑል ገብረማርያምን እና የምንሊክ ሆስፒታል አስተርጓሚን እንደሚከስ ለአዲስ ነገር ጋዜጣ በመግለጹና ጋዜጣው ዜናውን በመዘገቡ ምክንያት የጋዜጣው ዋና አዘጋጆችንና ጠበቃውን ፖሊስ ይዞ እንዲያቀርባቸው ዳኛው በሰጡት ትዕዛዝ መሰረት የጋዜጣው አዘጋጆች ዛሬ ፍርድ ቤት ቀርበው እንደነበር ከአዲስ አበባ የኢትዮጵያ ዛሬ ዘጋቢ ገለጸ።
የአዲስ ዜና ዋና አዘጋጅ ካለ አዘጋጁ፣ ከሌለ ደግሞ ምክትል አዘጋጁ ይቅረቡ ተብሎ ለአዲስ አበባ ፖሊስ ኮሚሽን የፍርድ ቤት ትዕዛዝ ሲደርሰው፣ ዛሬ ጠዋት ፖሊሶች ዋና አዘጋጁን አቶ መስፍን ነጋሽንና ም/ዋና አዘጋጁን ግርማ ተስፋውን አስሮ ፖሊስ ጣቢያ ወሰዷቸዋል። ከዚያም ፖሊሶቹ ቃላቸውን ተቀብለው ከሰዓት በኋላ ፍርድ ቤት አቀርቧቸዋል።
አዘጋጆቹ የቀረቡት ስምንተኛ ወንጀል ችሎት ሲሆን፣ ዳኛው የቴዲ አፍሮን ጉዳይ የሚያዩት ዳኛ ልዑል ገ/ማርያም ነበሩ። ዳኛው ጥያቄዎችን አቅርበው ከአዘጋጆቹ ምላሽ ካገኙ በኋላ ምክትል ዋና አዘጋጁን ወዲያውኑ እንዲለቀቅና ዋና አዘጋጁ ለነገ ጠዋት 5 ሰዓት በድጋሚ ፍርድ ቤት እንዲቀርብና ለዛሬ አዲስ አበባ ፖሊስ ኮሚሽን እንዲያድር የሚል ትዕዛዝ አስተላልፈዋል። በዚህም መሰረት ምክትል ዋና አዘጋጁ ሲለቀቅ ዋና አዘጋጁ ግን ታስሯል።
ዳኛ ልዑል የቴዲ አፍሮ ጠበቃ አቶ ሚሊዮን አሰፋ ዛሬ ማምሻውን ተፈልጎ ይቅረብ በተባለው መሰረት በፖሊስ ቁጥጥር ስር የዋለ ሲሆን፣ ፍርድ ቤት ግን ሳይቀርብ ቀርቷል። እንደ ኢትዮጵያ ዛሬ ምንጮች ገለጻ ከሆነ ነገ ጠበቃው ፍርድ ቤት እንደሚቀርብ ታውቋል።
ጠበቃው ”የቴዲ አፍሮን ጉዳይ የሚከታተለው ዳኛ የመከራከር መብቴን ተጋፍቷአል፣ …” በማለቱ የዳኝነት ነፃነትን ተጋፍቷል በሚል፣ ጋዜጣው ደግሞ የዳኝነት ነፃነት የሚጋፋ ዘገባ ሰርቷል በሚል ነው ፍርድ ቤት እንዲቀርቡ የተደረገው። እስካሁን ከሳሻቸው ማን እንደሆነ የታወቀ ነገር የለም።
I think the so called teddy lawyer deserves to be arrested. They said “ BESEFERUT KUNA MESEFER AYKERM” I remember this guy was one of the idiot HODAM judges that had read the meles seytanawi decision on the former kinijit leaders sentence to life in prison. Million, should’ve stayed away from being meles seytanawi loyal judge. Anyway, I don’t care about million, however, other weyane caders and loyal to weyane servers should take this lesson that meles seytanawi would not give any excuse for the sake of power. Those who didn’t take a lesson from Seye, Haylom, Kinfe and this idiot lawyer are only dummies that are chasing things for their bellies. I urge all hodam cadres of weyane to stop and take the necessary cautions before carrying out the next meles seytanawi duties.
By the way the Ethiopian people are very welcome for those Weyane members and servers who will be deciding to leave the weyane mafia group……THERE IS NOT GOING TO BE A BETTER TIME FOR WEYANE CADRES TO GET OUT OF WEYANE THAN NOW…..otherwise if you guys wait until weyane is forcefully removed you guys will be taken all the punishment along with the major orchestrators of weyane criminal officials.
It is a sham arrest. It is an attempt to try to portray the lawyer as genuine. Do not forget that the EPRDF is in the process of forming a puppet Ethiopian Lawyers Association, and Million Assefa is expected to be instrumental in its formation. They know the association is going to be accused of being fake because of Million’s heavy involvement (a man who was appearing on Radio in Ethiopia arguing in favor of death penalty for Kinijit leaders). And they know people usually take being arrested as equivalent to being at odds with the ruling party. For all you know, Million himself (a man known for his shrewdness) could have written the script for the whole show…including the drama that people have been witnessing in the court room. And Teddy was not meant to be the leading actor, people!
An angry Ethiopian friend told me:
This is how Woyannie’s treat us — far below Tigraian donkies! Woyannies can send any Ethiopian to jail, charge, convict and sentence, just in one place and by one person.
They see us as cowards and opportunit lots. If we chose not to fight back, then we have accepted our new status as secondary citizens in a country we call “ours”.
Either we are slaves or masters of our destiny, there is no line in between. Either you are a hero like Ras Emru, Abdis Aga or Zerai Dires, or nobody …
Mind you, these all is coming from the people who arrived barefeet from a land called Dedebit just yesterday.
Have you seen lately how the Somalis are fighting back? Where is the real gut of Ethiopians? How can we leave the entire fight on the backs of the likes of Andargachew Tsigie, Dr Berhanu, Bertukuan Medeqsa, Elias Kifle … only?
This is first time i agree with Ethiopian Kangaroo court!!!!!
Million is more Weyane then even Aboye Sebhat himself!!!
Why did Tedy Afro decide to pick him as lawyer? Million Assefa wanted CUD leaders in jail and he support the massacare of innocent blood 97 election!!!!
I like Hagos Araya’s saying. meles seytanawi what a name. It takes a genius person to come up with the name like this…It is a matter of time till everyone gets their turn judgement from the Kangroo court. God bless ethiopia
this is part of the drama
kkkkkkkk that is not true Million Asefa is woyane
yichawotubinal
It could happen anything under the Woyanne thugs except law and order.
Million Assefa, the attorney of Tewodros Kassahune, is a personal friend of Bereket Simon. He is the person that used to give “legal” opinions about election matters, especially opinions and ultimatums agains KINIJIT, in the “Ethiopian” television. History shows that a junior “Woyane” cannot jail a senior “Woyane” or his friends/relatives, unless that junior “Woyane” happens to be Meles himself. So I think Million will be released soon.
part of the conspiracy against true Ethiopians like Teddy Afro. We should no be surprised as there is no rule of law in the heart of Woyane. the tyrant could whatever he want!!
Death to the evil Woyane“`
All you angry people
Million is a genuine person who is very vocal for what he believes in. Maybe he may have been involved in previous elections that has a lot of controverisal issues for all of us, but he is a person who fights for what is right!! You all shouldn’t sit down and Criticize a person who atleast is a man enough to fight upfront for what he believes in. Shame how we are so quick to judge.
I am a bit confused! If Million is supposed to be close friend of Woyanay, then how come Teddy chose him as his lawyer? I am assuming that Teddy chose his own lawyer, it is not like Teddy could not afford a lawyer and got a public defender.
So called peaceful struggle movements where are you? I guess they are pacified by weyane’s fake p.code constitution.
U know guys why Weyane is scared of Teddy Afro i don’t think u need to be told b/s the reason is obvious, No 1 reason is they don’t want to c a united and civilized Ethiopia besides he is Amhara. No 2 reason is they know how much he would challenge their government through his music.
What im being worried about is for their mission is to wipe out all ethiopians who call for unity and peace. they will probablly inffect him using contaminated staff 1 day deliberately during his time in prison. Hey guys don’t forget why Prof Asrat Woldeyes died in prison.