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Ethiopia Court Sentences U.N. Staffer to Seven Years in Jail
[An Nahar] A United Nations...an idea whose time has gone... worker found guilty of participating in a terrorist group in Æthiopia was Friday sentenced to seven years and eight months in prison. Abdurahman Sheikh Hassan, an Æthiopian, was found guilty of "participating in a terrorist organization" earlier this week over alleged links to the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), an outlawed secessionist rebel group. "Under the guise of his job, he has been passing information to a terrorist organization with the aim to help them," Judge Mulugeta Kidane said, delivering the sentence. Hassan appeared in court Friday wearing a track jacket and slacks and holding Moslem prayer beads. He shook his lawyer's hand after she translated the sentence to him as Hassan does not speak Æthiopia's main language Amharic. He was sentenced along with Sherif Badio, whom the charge sheet lists as a senior member of the ONLF. Badio was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for "serving as a leader or a decision maker in a terrorist organization." Posted by: Fred 2012-06-23 |
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