On February 10th 2010, family members and relatives of Ms. Bisharo Wa’di Shaqlane informed Ogaden Human Rights Committee about her arrest by members of Somaliland Police and Ethiopian Security Forces. Since then her fate and whereabouts are unknown to her family.

Ms. Bisharo is a prominent feminist who was detained several times under different pretexts by the Ethiopian government.  The Ogaden Human Rights Committee has extensively documented her ordeal from 1996 to 2007 and all details about her past detention dates can be found in OHRC’s reports. See www.ogadenrights.org. During her detention periods she has undergone physical and psychological torture and she bears physical and psychological scars of the torture. Each time after long months of incommunicado detention without charges or trial she was released on bail, and was restricted to her detention location. In 2007, she escaped from her torturers and fled to Hargeisa seeking safety for her children and herself, where she registered herself as a refugee under another name.