{"id":27360,"date":"2011-09-28T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=27360"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:14:56","slug":"eritrea-journalist-publicly-threatened-for-coverage-of-dawit-isaak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=27360","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea: Journalist publicly threatened for coverage of Dawit Isaak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Swedish-based journalist has been <a title=\"CPJ - Journalists face threats in covering Isaac imprisonment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2011\/09\/journalists-face-threats-in-covering-isaac-impriso.php\" target=\"_blank\">threatened by the brother<\/a> of Dawit Isaak. Following a public forum in <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Eritrea\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/eritrea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eritrea<\/a> on the case of <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Dawit Isaak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/dawit-isaak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dawit Isaak<\/a>, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist who has been<a title=\"CPJ - Habeas corpus writ sees Dawit Isaac jailed for 3,600 days\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/habeas-corpus-writ-seeks-dawit-isaac-jailed-for-36.php\" target=\"_blank\"> imprisoned for over a decade<\/a>\u00a0without charge,\u00a0journalist Meron Estefanos was confronted on Friday by Isaak&#8217;s brother, Tedros. Tedros Isaak told the journalist if she used his name, or spoke of his family again he would &#8220;slit her throat&#8221;. Estefanos, a contributor to the leading Eritrean diaspora news site\u00a0<a title=\"Asmarino\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asmarino.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Asmarino<\/a>, wrote a column in 2010, comparing Tedros Isaak&#8217;s support for the government that arrested his brother with the <a title=\"CPJ - Reluctant activist. A brother\u2019s struggle to free Dawit Isaac\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-reluctant-activist-a-brothers-struggle-to-free.php\" target=\"_blank\">efforts of his other brother<\/a> to free Dawit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0without charge,\u00a0journalist Meron Estefanos was confronted on Friday by Isaak&#8217;s brother, Tedros. Tedros Isaak told the journalist if she used his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[2328,1237,3825,3855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27360"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27364,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27360\/revisions\/27364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}