The newly established Central Ethiopian Council today, Tuesday, December 19/2023. It was during the emergency meeting that he raised the immunity of the council member who is known for raising the question of regional organization of Gurage.
The State Council, like myself, was able to revoke Mr. Tarekun’s right to be prosecuted on the grounds that they “moved to violently undermine the constitution and the constitutional system with a serious crime.”
The House’s Standing Committee on Law and Good Governance made the request to revoke Mr. Tarekun’s immunity. After the submission of the resolution, two members of the council expressed their opposition to the lifting of Mr. Tarekin’s immunity. Mr. Anteneh Tesfaye is one of these commentators.
Mr. Ateneh; “Even when their right to immunity was not lifted, they were illegally arrested and beaten. Even if the Standing Committee had not seen this, we would have questioned the way he went to remove the impunity today,” he told the BBC. Mr. Tareqin was arrested on two different occasions last year. The man was last arrested at the end of June last year and was released after two days of detention.