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Former President of Ethio-Somali Regional State Abdi Mohammed Oumer was arrested on Monday 27 August on suspicion of gross violations of human rights, inciting ethnic and religious conflicts and atrocities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>According to the Federal Attorney General, the Federal Police has been arresting other individuals who have participated in similar atrocious activities.<\/p>\n

The Ethio-Somali Regional State Council lifted amnesty from prosecution of seven members of the council including the former president Abdi Mohamed Umer who is accused of inciting the recent turmoil in the region.<\/p>\n

In an extraordinary session, the Council of Ethiopian Somali regional state stripped immunity of seven of its members on suspicion of their links with the recent violence in the regional state.<\/p>\n

Below the is list of members of the Council who lost their immunity:<\/p>\n

1. Abdi Mohamed Omer \u2013Former Chief Administrator of Ethiopian Somali regional state<\/p>\n

2. Abdijemal Kelonbi- Head of Justice Bureau<\/p>\n

3. Rahma Mohammed \u2013 Head of Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s Bureau<\/p>\n

4. Ibrahim Mehd- Head of Education Bureau<\/p>\n

5. Dek Abdulahi \u2013Deputy Head of Water Resource Development Bureau<\/p>\n

6. Ibrahim Mohammed Mubarek \u2013 Mayor of Jigjiga<\/p>\n

7. Omer Abdi \u2013 Political Affairs Head of the Ethiopian Somali People Democratic Party (ESPDP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former President of Ethio-Somali Regional State Abdi Mohammed Oumer was arrested on Monday 27 August on suspicion of gross violations of human rights, inciting ethnic and religious conflicts and atrocities.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0According to the Federal Attorney General, the Federal Police has been arresting other individuals who have participated in similar atrocious activities. The Ethio-Somali Regional State …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-embassy-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/Abdi-Mohammed-Umar_0-e1535466576594.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11873,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/11873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethiopianembassy.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}