ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 16, 2021 — Ethiopian Federal Police announced that it has arrested the Associated Press (AP) journalists suspected of promoting the terrorist group Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) also known as Shene, according to a report from FBC.
Inspector Tesfaye Olani, head of the Terrorism Investigation Bureau at the Crime Investigation Division of the Federal Police, said the suspects were arrested because of their promotional works for the group designated as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian Parliament.
The arrested suspects were Amir Aman,Thomas Engeda and Addisu Muluneh.
The journalists were filming the military movement of the OLA terrorist organization in Midakegn, Oromia region, and then they would send their information to Khalid Kazziha, an Egyptian working as AP's East African Senior News Manager, who is stationed in Nairobi, Kenya.
The inspector said the suspects were stationed in Addis Ababa when they were contacted by the Egyptian journalist, who was in Kenya, to cover the terrorist group's activities which would then be reported to the Associated Press.
The report said the journalists were taking footage of the OLA terrorist group's movement from November 25 to November 27, 2021. They were apprehended at their workplaces on the 28th of November, 2021.
The inspector said police had acquired a lot of evidence from their laptops and mobile phones.
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