Title Ethiopia: 1. Please provide information outlining the major policies of the Kinijit Party in their 2005 election campaign. 2. Please advise what positions were held by party officials Dr Berhanu Nega, Hailu Shawel, Burtukan Mideksa and Ledutu Ayallu. Please provide any relevant information concerning their profile prior to the 2005 election. 3. Please provide information concerning the 2005 election results, including the number of seats won by parties. 4. Please advise if there is a record of post-election demonstrations and if so where were these primarily held? 5. The military camp at Dedesa was known to be used to house the overflow of arrested protesters in 2005. Over what period of time did the arrests of protestors occur? 6. Are there reports of any major prison break-outs or escapes from Dedesa at the end of 2005? Are there any reports of executions or other deaths of protesters imprisoned there and if so, how many? 7. Are there any reports that failed asylum seekers who return to Ethiopia are subject to adverse treatment on their return? 8. Deleted.
Publisher Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal
Publication Date 11 May 2009
Country Ethiopia
Topics Elections | Political groups | Political parties | Political situation | Prison or detention conditions | Rejected asylum-seekers | Returnees
Citation / Document Symbol ETH34786
Cite as Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal, Ethiopia: 1. Please provide information outlining the major policies of the Kinijit Party in their 2005 election campaign. 2. Please advise what positions were held by party officials Dr Berhanu Nega, Hailu Shawel, Burtukan Mideksa and Ledutu Ayallu. Please provide any relevant information concerning their profile prior to the 2005 election. 3. Please provide information concerning the 2005 election results, including the number of seats won by parties. 4. Please advise if there is a record of post-election demonstrations and if so where were these primarily held? 5. The military camp at Dedesa was known to be used to house the overflow of arrested protesters in 2005. Over what period of time did the arrests of protestors occur? 6. Are there reports of any major prison break-outs or escapes from Dedesa at the end of 2005? Are there any reports of executions or other deaths of protesters imprisoned there and if so, how many? 7. Are there any reports that failed asylum seekers who return to Ethiopia are subject to adverse treatment on their return? 8. Deleted., 11 May 2009, ETH34786, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4f3f92552.html [accessed 2 June 2023]
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