Police given ten more days to investigate Ethiopian journalists, bloggers under custody
Mahlet Fasil
A court in Addis Abeba today granted the police investigating the case of three independent journalists and six bloggers ten more days before the next hearing.
According to defense lawyer Amha Meokonnen, the police have submitted an application for no-bail at the Arada First Instance Court, First Bench claiming the investigation was a serious matter.
No charges were brought as of yet but the police have said the detainees have more collaborators who may help them to escape the country. The police have also said they were yet to finish confiscating equipments belonging to detainees including computers and printed documents, and they were yet to have some of the documents translated from English to Amharic.