Sixteen years on from the crackdown on dissent in Eritrea, English PEN is proud to launch a special report by writer-in-residence Eyob Teklay Ghilazghy Eritrea: a muzzled state (Exceprted from English Pen) “Today marks the sixteen-year anniversary of the crackdown on dissent in Eritrea, in which twelve journalists were arrested for their free expression work.
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By Dawit Mesfin* Now I know why a monument has been erected for Alexander Pushkin, the renowned Russian poet, in the heart of Asmara, while the country’s first independence campaigner, one who co-fathered Eritrea alongside Ibrahim Sultan and other nationalists of the 1940s, is brushed aside. Although my primary objective is to evoke a picture
UN Human Rights Council 35th Special Session Item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Delivered by Sarah Clarke, PEN International 14 June 2017 Mr President, PEN International remains deeply concerned by the severe restrictions on freedom of expression in Eritrea, which in 2017 continues to be one of the worst jailers of
By Yonatan Tewelde* Eritrean filmmaker Tesfit Abraha has spoken out about the repressive apparatus at the Eritrean Ministry of Information where he has worked as a cameraman for 15 years in an interview he gave to Radio Wegahta. Tesfit has made a name for himself in the Eritrean art circles as the writer, director and cameraman
“I felt like I was waking up from a nightmare”. — Temesghen Debesai Temesghen Debesai decided to flee the East African nation of Eritrea in 2001. Report by Steve Dawson, exerted from http://www.globaljournalist.org PROJECT EXILE: ERITREAN BROADCASTER WAITED FIVE YEARS TO ESCAPE
Abraham Zere’s article on eritrean Social media, exerted from Carnegie Council. Eritrea: An Exiled Nation Suspended in Liminal Space through Social Media ABRAHAM T. ZERE | DECEMBER 30, 2016
Today marks a bleak date in the country’s history, when a paranoid elite began a brutal campaign to cement its grip on power Eritrea is a prison state – no wonder so many are desperate to escape
Journalist Abraham T. Zere has been identified as a ‘security threat’, and watched his colleagues go to prison. Now exiled in the USA, he reveals the dangers facing writers in the “world’s most censored country” The life of a state journalist in Eritrea
Through my images I try to capture moments that depict the realities of life itself and living in Eritrea. – Click on the link below. Life itself. Living in Eritrea.