Teacher
The teachers are being arrested by the police in Walayta Zone.
Dochevelle Radio said that the arrest was made after the teachers gathered signatures to submit their petition to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (ISEMCO).
The families of the prisoners said that the police arrested the teachers because they “moved to incite riots; they destroyed the image of the zone”.
Teacher Daniel Faltamo is working as an English teacher in a senior high school in Damot Oyede district.
Co-workers who know the teacher said that they were collecting signatures to request the payment of teachers’ salaries until last Monday when the police officers were working in the zone.
His wife, a mother of 3 children, told the radio station that the teacher was taken away by the police at night.
The teacher’s wife said that the police came to the house at 9:00 p.m. “At that time, nothing happened. The whole family was sleeping. After they opened the house, they even checked the bed and mattress, but they couldn’t find anything. Finally, they took my husband away.”
Two other residents of the same district, who asked not to be named for our safety, said that their husbands were arrested just for raising the demand for bread.
“When the police came to the house, they didn’t show any court arrest papers,” the teachers’ families said.
A Damot Oyede district teacher who said that 3 of the teachers who were involved in collecting signatures for “Teachers’ salaries should be paid” have been arrested. He pointed out that before the coordinators were arrested, a message was sent to them by the leaders of the district saying “rest”.
District and zonal officials did not respond to the allegations.
Ato Emanuel Paulos, president and chairman of the South Ethiopian Regional Teachers’ Association, to the radio station; “Teachers have the right to ask for wages and the government has an obligation to pay them. We have not received any information that they have been threatened with imprisonment for asking for wages. But if this has happened, it is not right. We will fight for it,” he said.
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