Dear Qeerroo B,

First let me introduce myself to you as Mr. MM (just for security reason). I am from Finfinnee. Since I recently moved to one International Finance Institute, I have been blessed with access to free online media which otherwise is highly censured here in Ethiopia. As you may know, domestic media is absolutely owned by the regime while foreign based, domestic affiliated media (like websites) are blocked in most places. In such environment, its very difficult to ashame the oppressors by bringing plights of oppressed civilians to light.

Today, I want to share with you a very brief story of one ill treated ordinary civilian and politely ask you to cry foul on behalf of her by putting her horrendous nightmare out to public.

Her story goes like this: Her name is Jalale Tasisa, she is a young mother of one and a nurse by profession. She was arrested on July 25,2011, at her home in Addis Ababa. Initially it was said that the police was looking for her brother who is member of the OFDM and was also allegedly accused for being sympathizer of OLF; once they realized that they missed him, they arrested and detained her at Maikelawi (a prison in the capital) where she remained without any charge till this date except that she appeared in court twice in the last three months. where each time the police asked for additional time to collect more evidence, which adds nothing apart from testing her endurance.

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