African refugees face kidnap, torture and death in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
Source: Toronto Star
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-19 05:28:50 -0700 | political-news
This land of stick huts and nomads has long been untamed, but any inkling of government order vanished after the revolution that overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's police state. Islamist militants roam, smugglers hold sway and crimes are absolved or...
Escape From An Eritrean Prison
Source: National Public Radio
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-19 03:31:08 -0700 | political-news
But since the African country is so closed to the outside world, individual stories tend to come almost exclusively from those who have fled. Kidane Isaac was just 18 when he says Eritrean authorities arrested him for an unspecified crime....
AG: No hearings, long detention of migrants is legal
Source: Jerusalem Post
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-14 20:03:34 -0700 | political-news
Baz Ratner Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein on late Monday night wrote to the High Court of Justice claiming that the Law to Prevent Infiltration and the state's policy of placing certain African migrants in detention centers en masse for three years...
Need To Improve Human Rights Situation in Eritrea
Source: Scoop
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-14 17:02:41 -0700 | political-news
The international community must keep Eritrea under close scrutiny, an independent United Nations expert said today, stressing the need to fundamentally transform the East African nation's current culture of rights denial. Blatant disrespect for human rights in Eritrea is unacceptable,...
Eritreans desire to migrate to Israel stifled
Source: Jerusalem Post
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-11 11:37:50 -0700 | political-news
Eritrean migrants protest Negev detention facility Photo: Ben Hartman There is a diminished desire among Eritrean asylum seekers to migrate to Israel recently, largely due to the new Egypt border fence and the threat of incarceration they face under the...
Rights group says Eritrea detains 10,000 political prisoners
Source: Sudan Tribune
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-11 00:12:06 -0700 | political-news
Human rights group, Amnesty International, on Thursday criticised Eritrea over the allegation that it is arresting thousands of people for political reasons. President of Eritrea, Isaias Afewerki (Getty) The new report comes as the Red Sea nation is set to...
Sweden halts deportations to Eritrea
Source: The Local
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-09 01:07:36 -0700 | political-news
The move comes following an email sent on Thursday to all police authorities in Sweden to not forcibly deport people to Eritrea. "From what I understand the Migration Board is planning to stop these type of forced deportations. That's why...
The telephone, the new weapon of Eritreans in exile
Source: Daily Nation
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-05 20:45:58 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary The phone calls are a way of spreading dissent without putting those receiving the messages in danger, explains Kidane, a mother-of-three who is now settled in London. Galvanised by the Arab spring, Eritreans in exile in Europe...
23-year-old pays off mom's mortgage, becomes YouTube star
Source: Toronto Star
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-03 15:58:46 -0700 | political-news
Most people don't make headlines for writing mortgage cheques, but a payment made by a 23-year-old Canadian has recently vaulted him to digital stardom. Aba Atlas saved his entry-level military salary for two years in order to pay down the...
With Robocalls, Eritrean Exiles Organize Passive Resistance
Source: National Public Radio
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-02 12:54:00 -0700 | political-news
The people inside Eritrea don't dare to "like" his Facebook posts...For Eritrean activists living abroad, this silence can be frustrating. So Sium had an idea: If we can't ask them to come out, what if we ask them to stay...
Judge orders release of Eritrean woman, her 2 kids from jail
Source: Ynet News
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-05-01 06:13:22 -0700 | political-news
Haim Horenstein Beersheba District Court explains decision to release 2 girls together with mother from Saharonim Prison, saying: Children are a special humanitarian issue.' Hotline for Migrant Workers: Decision will effect lives of dozens of infants, children' Omri Efraim Will...
UN human rights expert to gather first-hand testimonies from Eritrean refugees
Source: Sudan Tribune
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-04-30 00:57:55 -0700 | political-news
The United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, is due to begin an official visit to Ethiopia and Djibouti on Tuesday to collect first-hand information from Eritrean refugees on the situation inside their...
UN to gather first-hand information from Eritrean refugees
Source: Scoop
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-04-25 22:10:06 -0700 | political-news
UN rights expert to gather first-hand information from Eritrean refugees Geneva, 25 April 2013 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, will carry out an official visit to Ethiopia and Djibouti from...
A Poetic Send-Off For Ficre
Source: New Haven Independent
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-04-22 09:11:38 -0700 | political-news
The standing room-only reading was organized by Gebreyesus' wife, poet Elizabeth Alexander, along with Yale's African-American Studies Department, where she teaches. It coincided with the final week of Polychromasia , an exhibition of paintings by Gebreyesus , a fixture of...
Female Eritrean pilot...
Source: Arab News
Āsmara :: Eritrea | updated 2013-04-21 09:17:53 -0700 | political-news
Sunday 21 April 2013 Last Update 21 April 2013 5:58 pm A female Eritrean Air Force pilot asked for asylum after she reached the King Abdullah Regional Airport in Jazan. The woman, who holds the rank of captain, told Jazan...
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