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Some two dozen police officers stood nearby, according to a witness cited by Reuters news agency. In Adama, 90km 56 miles southeast of the capital, two residents told Reuters that they heard gunshots amid protests in support of Jawar there on Wednesday afternoon.

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It was not immediately clear who fired the shots. In a Facebook post, Jawar said police had surrounded his house late on Tuesday and ordered his bodyguards to leave. He added that he did not know who had ordered the deployment of the security officers. The plan was to remove my security and unleash civilian attackers and claim it was a mob attack.

But state media on Wednesday quoted Endeshaw Tassew, commissioner general of the federal police commission, as saying in a statement that no measure had been taken against Jawar either by the government or the police. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday, Abiy had earlier warned unnamed media owners against stirring up unrest. But if this is going to undermine the peace and existence of Ethiopia … we will take measures.

Jawar, who was born in Ethiopia but holds a US passport, founded the Oromia Media Network, an independent television channel and news website. He has 1.