Protest planned to be staged against the re-arrest of Birtukan Mideksa, chairperson of the Unity for Democracy and Justice(UDJ), was banned.
Bereket Simon, head of the government’s communication’s affairs office, told Capital that the request was rejected because “it is a matter already dealt with by the judiciary.”
The protest was planned to be held this month.
UDJ officials have applied for authorization of the protest a month ago but they were told they couldn’t hold the demonstration because of the ongoing AU summit.
Now Bereket comes up with a different excuse saying, “I don’t think it is proper to try to subvert judicial decisions from being implemented by terrorizing implementing bodies.”
Birtukan was re-arrested for alleged violation of terms of her parole.
