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Eritrean journalist freed in Khartoum, Sudanese newspaperwoman detained

Published on 16 December 2011Read

Death in detention ?

Reporters Without Borders’ position on reports that Swedish-Eritrean journalist may have died in detention

Published on 2 November 2011Read

Eritrea

Issaias Afeworki – no less dangerous than Muammar Gaddafi or Bashar al-Assad

Ten years ago, on 18 September 2001, the entire world’s eyes were still turned to New York, the target of Al Qaeda’s devastating attacks the (...)

Published on 16 September 2011 Read

Eritrea

Detained journalist’s brother and Reporters Without Borders tell Sweden and EU they are legally bound to actively seek his release

Today in Stockholm and tomorrow in Strasbourg, the Swedish section of Reporters Without Borders and the brother of Dawit Isaac, a journalist with (...)

Published on 18 October 2010 Read

Eritrea

Journalists still hunted down nine years after September 2001 purges

The Eritrean authorities continue to gag all forms of free expression and recently arrested another journalist as he was trying to flee the (...)

Published on 17 September 2010 Read

Eritrea

Reporters Without Borders launches petition for release of imprisoned journalists

Today, the 19th anniversary of Eritrea’s independence, Reporters Without Borders issues a reminder that around 30 journalists are imprisoned in (...)

Published on 24 May 2010 Read

Eritrea

Prominent journalist arrested, ex-prison guard reveals fate of other detained journalists

As World Press Freedom Day was being celebrated on 3 May, Eritrea continued to be the world’s worst country for journalists with around 30 (...)

Published on 12 May 2010 Read

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Radio Erena: an independent news source for Eritrea

Based in Paris and run by Eritrean exile journalists, Radio Erena has been operating for the past nine months. Broadcasting by satellite to (...)

Published on 16 March 2010 Read

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A year after her arrest, Radio Bana journalist being held in solitary confinement

Reporters Without Borders has just learned from credible Eritrean sources that journalist and essayist Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu has been held in (...)

Published on 18 February 2010 Read