The other parties in Forum include: Ethiopian Democratic Unity Movement; Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement led by member of parliament Bulcha Demeksa; Somali Democratic Alliance Forces; the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces which consists of the Ethiopian Social Democratic Party and Southern Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Congress (both chaired by Beyene Petros MP) plus the Oromo People's Congress of MP Merara Gudina; and Union for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) chaired by Birtukan Mideksa...
Birtukan Mideksa: heads Union for Democracy and Justice (UDJ); a judge; arrested for treason 2005 after elections pardoned then rearrested last December for same crime; currently serving life sentence ...
The arrests by the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have been met with scepticism by diplomats in Addis Ababa and protests by human rights groups already campaigning against the gaoling for life of the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party leader Birtukan Mideksa...
Federal police have re-arrested Birtukan Mideksa of the now defunct opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy a year after she received a pardon following her arrest during the disputed 2005 elections...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
The recent re-arrest of Birtukan Mideksa Chairwoman of the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice Party and the arrest two months earlier of leaders of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement make it look as if the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front is getting ready to win the 2010 elections against a disunited opposition...
They were not impressed and when the CUD then put out its first agreed statement it was signed not by Hailu Shawal but by Berkutan Mideksa of Rainbow and Hailu Araya of the UEDP-Medhin...
