Kidane "Wedi Qeshi" was an

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

n Government Official. He has been imprisoned since December 2001. Kidane was a member of the

paramilitary A paramilitary is an organization whose structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. Paramilitary units carr ...

intelligence Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can b ...

unit, Brigade 72,("sebAn klten") which used to be headed by

Petros Solomon Petros Solomon (born 1951; also known as Wed'Solomon, Son of Solomon) is an Eritrean politician. He was an Eritrean People's Liberation Front commander during the Eritrean War of Independence, and following independence he served in several posit ...

one of the detained reformers. Kidane had been appointed as chief of Intelligence and Security only a year earlier. His arrest is reported to be related to his refusal to arrest the reformers because he believed that the detention was "illegal".

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