Kidane "Wedi Qeshi" was an Eritrean Government Official.
Kidane was a member of the paramilitary intelligence unit, Brigade 72,("sebAn klten")[clarification needed] which used to be headed by Petros Solomon 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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