CAT/C/49/D/432/2010 KINIJIT or CUDP). She started supporting the movement and helped to organize events and demonstrations. In May 2006, she was arrested by members of the Ethiopian military and imprisoned for one month.2 After having suffered severe ill-treatment in custody, the complainant was released on bail. She was, however, still under surveillance by the Ethiopian authorities and feared being apprehended again. In June 2007, she was given an opportunity to attend a conference in Geneva as her employer’s representative. The complainant seized the opportunity to be able to leave Ethiopia legally and applied for asylum in Switzerland for the first time on 25 June 2007. 2.2 The complainant submits that she continued her political activism in Switzerland. Since October 2007, she has been an active member of KINIJIT and currently holds a position as the cantonal representative of Lucerne for the KINIJIT Support Organization in Switzerland (KSOS), where she plays an active role in arranging meetings, encouraging new members and organizing demonstrations. Moreover, she often speaks at protest events and publishes critical comments and articles on the Internet. The complainant is also a member of the Association des Ethiopiens en Suisse (AES), which often organizes demonstrations against the Ethiopian authorities. 2.3 On 25 July 2007, the Federal Office for Migration decided not to pronounce itself on the merits of the complainant’s asylum request and ordered her expulsion from Switzerland. Her appeal against this decision was rejected by the Federal Administrative Court on 11 December 2008. 2.4 On 24 April 2009, the complainant submitted a second asylum request, in which she indicated her political activities in Switzerland and submitted photographs, leaflets, articles written by her, comments added by her on discussion forums, a confirmation letter from KSOS, a letter from AES and a Human Rights Watch report as evidence. The Federal Office for Migration interviewed the complainant on 30 October 2009 and rejected her second asylum request on 12 November 2009. The Federal Office noted that the complainant had not been able to credibly demonstrate any politically motivated persecution by the Ethiopian authorities on the occasion of her first asylum procedure. There was, therefore, no reason to assume that she had been noticed by the Ethiopian authorities as a dissident prior to her departure or that she had been registered in any way as a regime critic or a political activist. Thus, in the opinion of the Federal Office for Migration, there was also no reason to assume that the complainant had been watched by the Ethiopian authorities after her arrival in Switzerland. 2.5 The Federal Office for Migration also held that the information provided by the complainant during the oral hearing of 30 October 2009 did not suggest that she held a prominent position within KSOS. Moreover, there were no indications that the Ethiopian authorities had noticed the complainant’s membership in KSOS or had taken any detrimental measures against her. Furthermore, her activities for AES, an association that declares itself as politically independent and is mostly involved in cultural activities, were of a rather limited scope. The Federal Office for Migration considered as proven that the complainant was, like many of her compatriots, politically active in exile. The evidence submitted by her demonstrated, however – as in numerous other similarly documented asylum requests – that in Switzerland many activities of dissidents in exile take place for only a few months. Subsequently, group photographs that are often arranged and depict hundreds of people are published in the corresponding media. Even though the photographs submitted by the complainant depicted her holding a megaphone in the front row of 2 A copy of the document issued by the Addis Ababa City Administration Police Commission was submitted to the Committee by the complainant on 8 September 2010 and is available on file in the original language (Amharic) with an unofficial English translation. 3