“Our adversaries are cowards, afraid of the truth” – Awet Fissehaye of PEN Eritrea The independent Eritrean journalists who have…
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Category: Political Prisoners
Twenty one years after being jailed, Eritrea’s independent journalists are remembered in the British Parliament
On 18 September 2001 the Eritrean government banned all independent media outlets and incarcerated all but the most compliant journalists….
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Eritrea’s divisions – funded and fuelled by President Isaias Afwerki
The Tigray war The war – now two years old – is raging, even as the first official peace talks…
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Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights complains to UN about imprisonment of Dawit Isaak
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RWCHR Files Complaint to UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Behalf of Dawit Isaak and…
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Eritrea’s human rights case heard in British Parliament; Eritreans trained in advocacy
This week a group of Eritreans presented the appalling abuses of religious freedoms before British Parliament. They were providing their…
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Eritrean Patriarch dies after 15 years of house arrest
Source: The Tablet by Filipe Avillez The death of Patriarch Antonios of the Eritrean Orthodox Church has been announced by human…
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Göteborg City Library highlights imprisoned authors
Göteborg City Library highlights imprisoned authors Source: Vartgoteborg 2021-11-11 20 years ago Dawit Isaak was captured. November 15 is Prison Writers’…
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Eritrea : RSF demands that Swedish Prosecutors assume their responsibility for Dawit Isaak
Source: RSF ©Kalle Ahlsén As Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak is now detained for 20 years in Eritrea, Reporters without Borders…
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The Forgotten Prisoners – statement by Hanna Petros Solomon to the Inter-Parliamentary Union
The Forgotten Prisoners During the commemorative event marking the 20th anniversary since the disappearance of 11 Eritrean parliamentarians, an…
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Eritrea: The imprisonment of Teklebrhan Ghebresadick (alias Wedi Bashai)
The story of the fate of Teklebrhan Ghebresadick was read out at the Eritrean Political Prisoners exhibition in London on…
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