{"id":6538,"date":"2009-02-10T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2009-02-10T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T19:45:12","slug":"daniel-howden-jailed-%e2%80%93-judge-who-refused-to-say-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6538","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Howden: Jailed \u2013 judge who refused to say sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since being feted by Tony Blair, Ethiopia’s government has grown increasingly intolerant of dissent \u2013 and the leader of its main opposition party is paying the price.<\/p>\n

By Daniel Howden, The Independent<\/em>, 3 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Birtukan<\/a>

Birtukan Mideksa has been re-arrested after refusing to say sorry for protesting against the 2005 election results in Ethiopia<\/p><\/div>Birtukan Mideksa has been sentenced to life in prison. She spends her days and nights in solitary confinement in a two-metre by two-metre cell. She cannot leave it to see daylight or even to receive visitors. Previous inmates say the prison is often unbearably hot.<\/p>\n

Her crime: refusing to say sorry. The judge, aged 34, is the head of Ethiopia’s most popular political party, the only female leader of a main opposition party in Africa.<\/p>\n

The government in Addis Ababa had her arrested on 28 December, claiming she had violated the terms of an earlier pardon.<\/p>\n

Her previous release in 2007, which came after serving two years in prison, was conditional on her signing an apology for taking part in protests against fixed elections. <\/p>\n

[Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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