The Dutch chapter of Amnesty International has launched a campaign for the release of Birtukan Mideksa. Members of Amnesty Netherlands are campaigning to get as many petitions as possible before the dead line (1 December 2009).
Birtukan Mideksa, the charismatic leader of UDJ, is being held in solitary confinement serving a life sentence. Please sign a petition to Mr. Louis Michel European Union Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid to use all diplomatic means for the freedom of Birtukan Mideksa.
Download a sample letter here and send it to Louis.Michel@ec.europa.eu
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This is a great boost for us. Let distribute this news to our friends and send petitions. Out attachment and togetherness unlike the western countries should help us here. We should stand on her side. It costs us nothing but it will make a diffeence.
God Bless Ethiopia!
Louis Michel
European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid
Berlaymont 10 / 165
B-1049 Brussel
België
(Plaats, datum)
Dear Mr Michel,
Please allow me to express my concern about Birtukan Mideksa who is being held in solitary confinement serving a life sentence. She was convicted for co-leading opposition protests against the 2005 election results. In mid-2007 she signed a letter of apology and was subsequently pardoned and
released. In November 2008 Birtukan Mideksa spoke at a public meeting in Sweden, describing the negotiations that led to her release and the letter of apology. Upon her return to Addis Ababa she was given three days to retract her statement, which she refused to do. On 28 December she was rearrested. Her pardon was revoked and her original life sentence re-imposed.
She is being held in a cell measuring two metres square, which is said to be unbearably hot. Amnesty International considers her a prisoner of conscience and is concerned that she is at risk of ill-treatment.
I urge you to use all diplomatic means to press the Ethiopian government to release Birtukan Mideksa immediately and unconditionally.
I am confident of your good will and sense of justice.
Yours sincerely,
Girma Gebretsadik