We had to share the same cell and only had access to the toilet twice a day. Those who were ill had to use plastic bags. It was a windowless cell. We were sharing approximately a 4 m by 4m dimly lit cell measuring only 16 square meters approximately.

During daylight hours we were free to asociate with each other. The prison was poorer hygine, no medical facilities delay in obtaining professional medical or hospital treatment.

The cell was overcrowding cell. We were obliged to work during confinment. They used to wake us up early in the morning and forced us to do a physical exercise.  They used to wake us and take us outside of the cells around 7 am in the morning. This was the time we were free to asociate with the other prisoners. When we get out of the cells to receive fresh air use the rest room The police will force us to do coercive physical exercise They will force us walk crawling and kneeling. They used to force us to do coercieve work . They used to force us dig a yard on the back of the prison compund.

They told them no kebele ID but after they made a serach They found out they own an foreign national Residence ID  given to the Eritreans. THey seized them and took them. I didn't know as where they took them at first. Because I have  a kebele ID they 

They took my biographical data and and asked me to testify the incident. They asked me to fill a form where I had to fill my name, residence, work place. While they were interogating they asked as why I expressed my feelings towards the ill decission of the UN border decission which difavours Ethioia. They accused me that I were an Eritrean spy and working together with those two Eritrean undercover agents working together to weaken the strong solidare people. I tried to explain that my assciation with those Eritrean friend was not political and I told them I have nothing to with either working with the Eritrean government or associating with the Eritrean agents spying to weaken Ethiopia.

The one who interviewed me was a police officer . But the once who interogated me in the morning of the next day were Security agents. They were security agents. 

First I was thrown alone in a small dark cell. But later I was detained with other male prisoners.

I was imprisoned alone in the small dark cell for the first 5 days.

The cell which I was detained first was a very small dark cell. The floor was a cement floor. The walls and the roof was a concrete wall. The door was a metal door. The room will be filled in total darkness when the door is closed because there is no window in the cell. While I was detained in the small dark cell I used to sleep on a small rag sheet of catoon 

While I was mixed with the other prisoners there was an opening in the door and a small window at the distant just below the long concrete roof. Air will get into the room by the  small openning on the door. On between of the walls just below the concrete roof is a lamp lit to share for two rooms. The light and the radio program through a speaker will stay until 9 pm in the evenning. The room was built in the concrete like the other one Except this room was a little bit bigger than the other cell , all the room was similar to the other cell except its width.

When I was in the interogation room the interogation room was empty except a table and two chairs. The officers were angry and yelling at me to testify the truth that I am an agent to the Eritrean government. I proved to them that I am inocent and got nothing to do with the eritrean government . I told them those friends are only friends and our association was not at all political except personal friendship from school. 
 
While I was saying this the security official was beating me with a stick and with boots and also punch me.  I was crying out of pain. During the interogation I used to hear crying in the neighbouring room.

I was beaten and interogated for 4 days. But I was bitten bitterley on the next day of the night I was arrested. THat day I was interogated for a such long time and also they used to beat me . The beat me with stick they punched me they beat me with their boots. And they used to beat me with a stick. It was on the morrow of my day of detention that I was being taken to the interrogation room and beaten bitterly. In that day the beating and interogation was so long and I suggest it lasted for more than one hour and a half.

They beat with a stick. which is stub of stick.

After the beating and interogation my body was swealing and bruises. I have asked them a treatment. But hey refused so After I have been released I went to a Filwuha physioteraphy servise to get a massage for the bruises and swealing of my body. The fellow inmates also made me a massage so that I get relief of the pain I sufferd through the beating during the interogation.

The worst that happened to me during my detention was One day they came during the night early in the morrning [It was almost a week after I been in the prison] . The guard came to me and took me to the interogation room with anger threathening me to death mentioning that my case has been clarified that they make sure that I was a spy to the Eritrean government agent working together associating with inmate Eritreans to transmit security information and to sabotage computer system in Ethiopian Airlines, to destroy the good image of the company . They beat me and punched me and beat me with boots I was glad that I made that day out because I was thinking that my day is . They were angry and threathening and beating me when I tried to prove them that the flaw which occured in Ethiopian Airlines is what is normally happening in every software life cycle, that I told them that I was even in the process of correcting the mistake in the software program and the flaw occured during the development . But they were insisting and risking my life beating me with stick, and boot and punching me in my face. That day I was very weak That night I was very weak of the severe beating I survived and that night I hadn't even had food. All with the severe beating together made life unbearable to the point so that I was afraid that I will suffer in the jail like this all but there was any chance if I get out I decided I have to use all means to get out the country and rescue my Life for the better good.

All they were threathening me with full of insults that the deep reaason my asscociation with those Eritreans and what I was doing in the Airline was known. I couldn't resist their beatings because I ate nothing , I was so weak so that I felt in the ground. I was crying due to fear and distress

During my incarceration I was frightnened and afraid.

My uncle came and paid 5000 birr to bail me out And they threatened me that They were not responsible for whatever is happening in my if I threathening you will ... 

After I came here they used to go to my uncle's house to ceize him and finally got him and took him to jail