A decade of brutal suppression in Eritrea

The Eritrean authorities must immediately and unconditionally release 11 prominent politicians, including three former cabinet ministers, who have been held incommunicado without charge for 10 years.

Among the 11 prisoners is Aster Fissehatsion, a veteran of the 30-year long war of independence with Ethiopia and a former prominent member of the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF).
The group also includes her husband, former vice-president and foreign minister Mahmoud Ahmed Sheriffo, as well as Haile Woldetensae, and Petros Solomon, both of whom are also former foreign ministers.

Appeals from their families that the prisoners be formally charged and tried or else released, and criticising their secret incommunicado detention, have been dismissed repeatedly by the Eritrean authorities.
In the months following the arrest of G15 members, dozens of other journalists, government critics and supporters of the dissidents were also detained in a sweeping crackdown on freedom of expression.
Widespread human rights violations are routine in Eritrea. President Isaias Afewerki and the ruling PFDJ, the only permitted political party, exert complete control over the state without a hint of elections which have been indefinitely delayed. There is no independent judiciary.

The government severely restricts freedom of expression and freedom of religion. No opposition parties, independent journalism or civil society organizations, or unregistered faith groups are allowed. The authorities use arbitrary arrests, detentions and torture to stifle opposition, holding thousands of political prisoners in dire conditions, many in secret detention.

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• Eritrea
• G15
• prisoners
• tourture
• Amnesty International
• IS
• political
• human rights

[taflanzerigan]

Amnesty you were silent when mengistu burned down villages, hanged eritrean teengers in public, tortured eritreans, during 30 years of strugling for freedom and indepence, not once had you raised the sufferings of eritreans, and now you want to act like you care for us, im not even going to mention the little stunt you tried to pull of recently.

So who is it that your trying to fool with your propoganda?bcs it sure aint eritreans

as we are not fools, we now exactly what goes on in our country.

[ahmanu1983]

don't be fooled you children's future depends on it. history repeating itself Europeans are doing it again with their lies. Eritrea remain united !!!!!! Fight the power.

[birhan2006]

@taflanzerigan wow really? how old are you? 9, 10.. or a man with a toddler's mind? your are brainwashed fool aren't you

[taflanzerigan]

@birhan2006 You stand for the imperialist and the DEVILS of the world, Eritrea is a blessed country, and in our culture we do not have the heart to torture or kill innocent people, unlike your BUTCHER mengistu.

[birhan2006]

@taflanzerigan Why is it for you people too difficult to understand democracy? It’s as simple as setting a common law i.e. constitution and everybody in the land abide by it. Of course your beloved dictator goes in circle whenever this subject is asked of him to explain. Why do you want to suppress the entrepreneurship spirit of Eritreans that was an envy of Ethiopians by making them compete with mafia like pfdj business unfairly dominating all business sectors in Eritrea?

[birhan2006]

@taflanzerigan what do you stand for? I stand for the forgotten and prosecuted, I stand for Aster Fissehatsion, Joshua Yohannes, Haile Woldetensae, Petros Solomon, Mahmoud Ahmed Sheriffo… and all the rest of Eritreans who are killed and who are suffering under your hero lunatic dictator. I'm for young Eritreans under modern day slavery who are being abused by military officers. I stand for Patriarch Abune Antonios whose holiness was aboused by the dictator and his henchman Yoftaha Dimetros.

[birhan2006]

@taflanzerigan Is that all you got? “speak to me” no I never spoke to you, nor do I have any desire to speak to you. For all I know you could be a despot worshiping zombie i.e. not human. I’m only responding, in written words that is, to your stupid comments. You are already aware of what happened to tyrants who have contempt for their own people and their supporters. I have an advice for you, remain anonymous. The time will be short to those tyrannical rulers and their puppets like you.

[taflanzerigan]

@YONAS219 you can never hide the crimes of your ethiopian leaders, but they got destroyed by our heroes like isaias and ramadan and all our martyrs, so go and share your crocodile tears with some1 else.

[taflanzerigan]

@birhan2006 What was that? i cant understand a word you said? try to learn to speak in english then come speak to me.

[birhan2006]

@taflanzerigan Do you have any evidence of that you fucken ass, defender of dictatorship. Do you live in the west? go back to Eritrea if all is good and switch place with any young Eritrean who is suffering under modern day slavery. And see how it feels like to be deprived of one's humanity. Do you want some ass hole who is not better than you to tell you what to do everyday? That is what Eritreans are going through. why don't you defend rule of law

[birhan2006]

Pulled from drain pipe, Gadhafi was shown no mercy. Did you hear about that Isaias?

[taflanzerigan]

@millertas Is that all you have to say,LOL, anyway why dont you report this to amnesty international

"Occupy Wall Street: Police brutality, media blackout" and ask the US president to answer to these police brutality against innocent civillians. by the way this was just a few days ago.