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Dawit Isaak and the failure of silent diplomacy: In conversation with Björn Tunbäck

5 December 2018
Cathal Sheerin for IFEX

Björn Tunbäck of Reporters Without Borders (Sweden) and Swedish PEN has been involved in the campaign for journalist Dawit Isak's release from the start. He told Cathal Sheerin about the campaign in Sweden and what states and intergovernmental organisations could be doing, but aren't.

Attacks Censorship Eritrea

Eritrean government being asked for proof of life of detained journalists

As Eritrea undergoes Universal Periodic Review with UN Security Council, the government is being asked to proof of life of the journalists who have been detained over the years.

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎16 July 2018

Access to Information Censorship Eritrea

Shadow report on Eritrea submitted to African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

There's a wide gulf between the Eritrean government's national report submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and a shadow report compiled by RSF.

‎ Reporters Without Borders (RSF)‎28 April 2018

Impunity Eritrea Free Expression & the Law

Denial of free expression remains "systematically entrenched" in Eritrea

ARTICLE 19 is disturbed that the denial of freedom of expression, assembly and association rights remains "systematically entrenched" in Eritrea.

‎ ARTICLE 19‎25 June 2017

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Is Dawit Isaak alive?

‎ PEN Canada

Eritrea 2 May 2017
Where is Dawit Isaak?

‎ IFEX

Impunity Censorship Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 30 March 2017
Incommunicado for 15 years: Where are Eritrea's opposition members and journalists?

‎ Human Rights Watch

Censorship Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 19 September 2016
Government announces journalist Dawit Isaak, jailed nearly 15 years, still alive

‎ International Press Institute (IPI)

Impunity Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 27 June 2016
Swedish-Eritrean writer marks 5,000 days in detention without trial

‎ PEN International

Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 2 June 2015
Eritrean journalists released after nearly six years in prison

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 22 January 2015
Swedish prosecutor abandons journalist Dawit Isaak's case in Eritrea

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Sweden Impunity Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 23 September 2014
Eritrea: UN human rights review is opportunity for government to lift severe restrictions on free expression

‎ PEN International

Censorship Eritrea 3 February 2014
The sting of impunity: A live chat with exiled journalist Aaron Berhane

‎ Canadian Journalists for Free Expression

Impunity Censorship Eritrea 18 November 2013
Eritrea: A story of censorship

‎ Canadian Journalists for Free Expression

Attacks Eritrea 12 November 2013
Report: Freedom of information "disastrous" in Eritrea

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Eritrea 26 June 2013
Eritrean government blocks access to Al Jazeera

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Digital Rights Censorship Eritrea 7 February 2013
Eritrean soldiers stage mutiny, storm information ministry

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Free Expression & the Law Eritrea 5 February 2013
Eritrean Information Minister 'invisible' since November

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Attacks Eritrea 3 January 2013
Judicial enquiry launched in Paris over jamming of Eritrean radio station

‎ Reporters Without Borders

France Censorship Eritrea 13 November 2012
Report highlights dire media situation in Eritrea

‎ ARTICLE 19

Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 5 November 2012
Imprisoned Swedish-Eritrean journalist's case referred to African human rights panel

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Free Expression & the Law Eritrea 2 November 2012
Three journalists held since 2001 die in Eritrean prison camp

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Attacks Digital Rights Censorship Eritrea Free Expression & the Law 5 September 2012
UN Human Rights Council condemns abuses in Eritrea, Belarus

‎ Human Rights Watch

International Eritrea Belarus 6 July 2012
For exiled Eritreans in Sudan, fear greater than most

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Sudan Eritrea 19 June 2012
Detained journalist admitted to hospital in serious condition

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Eritrea 10 April 2012
RSF lawyer pleads on behalf of imprisoned journalists

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Eritrea 10 February 2012
Thirty-one IFEX members call on authorities to disclose whereabouts of journalist Dawit Isaak

‎ World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers

Eritrea 14 November 2011
RSF concerned over fate of Dawit Isaac

‎ Reporters Without Borders

Eritrea 3 November 2011
Journalists face threats in covering Dawit Isaac's imprisonment

‎ Committee to Protect Journalists

Sweden Attacks Eritrea 27 September 2011
Human Rights Watch releases briefing paper on missing political prisoners

‎ Human Rights Watch

Eritrea 23 September 2011

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Shadow Report to Initial National Report (1999-2016) from the State of Eritrea

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accuses the Eritrean government of a complete denial of reality in its first-ever report to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and announces that it has submitted an alternative "shadow report" with a much darker assessment of the state of press freedom in Eritrea.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 28 March 2018
Freedom of the Press 2016: Eritrea

17 journalists were imprisoned in Eritrea as of December 1, 2015, the most in sub-Saharan Africa

Freedom House 24 April 2016
Freedom of the Press 2015: Eritrea

Ranked 195th in annual global media freedom report

Freedom House 1 May 2015