Dimecres a primera hora, el jutge Shemsu Sirgaga va donar la raó a la part acusadora després de rebatre el principal argument de la defensa, segons la qual Schibbye i Persson havien viatjat al país per informar sobre el conflicte entre les forces rebels i l’exèrcit etíop des de totes dues parts.
Early on Wednesday morning, Judge Shemsu Sirgaga denied the defense's main argument, which held that Schibbye and Persson travelled professionally and had a journalistic duty to report on the conflict from the side of the rebel forces as well as that of Ethiopia's military, and sided with the prosecution.