In October 2019, Ethiopian activist and media owner Jawar Mohammed alleged that members of the police had attempted to force his security detail to vacate the grounds of his home in Addis Ababa in order to detain him the night of 23 October, intimating that they had done so at the behest of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The previous day, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had given a speech in Parliament in which he had accused "media owners who don’t have Ethiopian passports" of "playing it both ways," a thinly veiled reference to Jawar, adding that "if this is going to undermine the peace and existence of Ethiopia... we will take measures."[1][2]