April 12th, 2012
Eritrean journalist Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu, in custody since her arrest in February 2009, was
admitted to hospital in Asmara earlier this year, where she reportedly remains in a serious condition. She has been admitted to the hospital twice, once last November and again in January this year. She is under permanent guard and is allowed no visitors. She was arrested during a
raid on Radio Bana on 22 February 2009, during which the station’s entire staff was detained.
September 28th, 2011
A Swedish-based journalist has been
threatened by the brother of Dawit Isaak. Following a public forum in
Eritrea on the case of
Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist who has been
imprisoned for over a decade without charge, journalist Meron Estefanos was confronted on Friday by Isaak’s brother, Tedros. Tedros Isaak told the journalist if she used his name, or spoke of his family again he would “slit her throat”. Estefanos, a contributor to the leading Eritrean diaspora news site
Asmarino, wrote a column in 2010, comparing Tedros Isaak’s support for the government that arrested his brother with the
efforts of his other brother to free Dawit.
May 24th, 2010
Eritrea has held Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak without charge for eight years. The west must stand up to this brutal regime, says his brother Esayas Isaak
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January 27th, 2010
Freedom of expression is stifled in Africa’s youngest nation, says Peter Martell
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August 7th, 2009
News that six Gambian journalists have been jailed for two years for “ridiculing the head of state” signals that the country has become one of Africa’s worst abusers of press freedom says AllAfrica.com’s Brian Kennedy. (more…)
