The release of Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie
A brief history
- In 2005 Daniel Bekele, a policy manager at ActionAid Ethiopia was active in the Global Call to Action against Poverty, the worldwide movement of which Make Poverty History was a part.
- Shortly afterwards he was arrested on November 1 2005 along with a close colleague Netsanet Demissie.
- Denied bail for more than two years, the pair were eventually acquitted of treason but found guilty of a lesser charge of 'provocation and preparation'.
- In March 2008 they were released after 28 months in prison.
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