BBC || The former head of a notorious Ethiopian prison has been arrested and is expected to face trial. Hassan Ismail Ibrahim, also known as Hassan Dhere, was arrested in neighbouring Somalia in a town where he had been hiding, following a tip-off.
Campaigners say inmates were routinely tortured at “Jail Ogaden”, which he ran in Ethiopia’s Somali region. Many prisoners were accused of being linked to the separatist group the Ogaden National Liberation Front.
But that group signed a peace deal with the government in October, following the appointment of Abiy Ahmed as prime minister.
Former prisoners interviewed by Human Rights Watch said they saw people dying in their cells after being tortured. The authorities closed the prison last year and announced plans to make it into a museum.
The new president of Ethiopia’s Somali region, Mustafa Omer, told Al Jazeera news in April that he was chasing the people who allowed the torture.
I congratulate the families and loved ones of all those Somali countrymen and women who were victims of this beast. I have also read similar story where a former tormentor from the Mengistu era was apprehended, tried and given jail time here in the Good Ole USA. Congratulations to those loved ones of his victims also. This one demon must have also lied about his age. If he is now 58 years old, that makes him only about 16 years old in 1977 when he tortured countrymen and women to death. In any case, it is one more bright day for justice. There must be many others like these two who enjoy freedom hiding from justice among us here, Europe or even in Oceania. Some of them are camping out behind the disguise of ‘liberation fronts’. These ‘Judy’s in Disguise’ are still wreaking havoc among peaceful people of the old country. Disgusting!!!