58 | P age b for longtime pulling out tooth mutilating the body frightening by setting Guns standing on men‟s genitals and putting head in water and make difficult to breath. The High Court, in its verdict, found the accused guilty of grave willful injury in contravention to article 538 of the penal code stating that the accused is found guilty of causing grave bodily injury against 83 persons 4.6.2. The General Attorney Indictments against Former State Officials Ethiopia has been passing through political and legal reforms since April 2018. Following this transition the government has been working to punish former state officials who are alleged to commit grave human rights violations Regarding criminal liability of former officials for grave violation of human rights, 44 people are now, in general, accused before the federal courts. The accused persons, like the SPO against Derge officials, classified in two three groups (the high officials of national intelligence and security service (NISS), officials of prison administrations, and police officers. The charge brought against them is based on the general criminal code and special law of crimes of corruption under proclamation No. 881/2015. Besides, the indictment against the high officials of the security agency and prison administrations divided in time based on acts committed before 2015 and acts committed during 2015 and then after. The cases are pending and at the time of the writing the court is hearing the testimony of the witnesses produced by Federal General Attorney (FGA). In the case between FGA v. Getachew Assefa Abera et al. FGA accused 26 persons who were the high officials of the former National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). The charge brought against them has total of 46 charges for acts committed in two different times. The first, acts committed before 2015 and second acts committed during and after 2015. For the acts committed before 2015 FGA used the criminal code of 2004 and for the acts committed during and after 2015 FGA used corruption crimes proclamation No. According to the criminal charge the victims were those persons who were suspect of terrorism, member or actor on behalf of Aribegnoch Ginibot Sebat (GOLF and other opposition political parties who were labeled as terrorist and Islamic movement or Islamic extremist. The indictment specify 263 Getachew Assefa et al. (indictment of 7 May, 2019) FGA file No. 198/2011.
