Ten long years : [electronic resource] a briefing on Eritrea's missing political prisoners/ SOR.

Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: New York, NY, USA : Human Rights Watch (HRW), 2011Description: 1 PDf-file (46 p.) : illISBN:
  • 1564328155
  • 9781564328151
Other title:
  • 10 long years
  • Briefing on Eritrea's missing political prisoners
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Contents:
Summary -- Methodology -- Recommendations -- To the Government of Eritrea -- To the United Nations, African Union, United States, European Union, and Eritrea's Other Foreign Partners -- To All Countries -- The Fate of the September 2001 Victims -- The "G-15" Prisoners -- The Journalist Prisoners -- What Is Known about the Prisoners -- The Eritrean Government's Shifting Statements about the Prisoners -- International Findings of Human Rights Violations -- Other Human Rights Violations by the Eritrean Government -- Arbitrary Arrest and Disappearance -- Forced Labor and other Abuses in National Service -- Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment -- Collective Punishment -- Religious Persecution -- Discrimination against the Kunama Ethnic Minority -- Restrictions on Freedom of Movement -- The International Response -- United Nations Human Rights Council -- United Nations Sanctions Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea -- The United States, the European Union, Qatar, and Libya -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements.
Summary: "In September 2001, when the world's attention was focused on the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in New York, the president of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, cracked down on critics of his rule, accelerating Eritrea's slide into authoritarianism. Isaias imprisoned 11 members of his government, journalists, and others. Nothing has been heard from the prisoners since. This briefing paper pieces together what Human Rights Watch knows of what happened to the so-called G-15 prisoners: locked up incommunicado in secret prisons. Many of them are feared dead. The paper also describes the wide range of human rights abuses perpetrated by the Isaias regime: arbitrary and indefinite detention; torture; shocking jail conditions; restrictions on freedom of speech, movement, and belief; religious and ethnic persecution; and indefinite conscription and forced labor in national service. The briefing paper calls for the release of all political prisoners, access for independent monitors to Eritrea's jails, and other reforms."--P. [4] of cover.
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"September 2011"--Table of contents page.

Summary -- Methodology -- Recommendations -- To the Government of Eritrea -- To the United Nations, African Union, United States, European Union, and Eritrea's Other Foreign Partners -- To All Countries -- The Fate of the September 2001 Victims -- The "G-15" Prisoners -- The Journalist Prisoners -- What Is Known about the Prisoners -- The Eritrean Government's Shifting Statements about the Prisoners -- International Findings of Human Rights Violations -- Other Human Rights Violations by the Eritrean Government -- Arbitrary Arrest and Disappearance -- Forced Labor and other Abuses in National Service -- Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment -- Collective Punishment -- Religious Persecution -- Discrimination against the Kunama Ethnic Minority -- Restrictions on Freedom of Movement -- The International Response -- United Nations Human Rights Council -- United Nations Sanctions Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea -- The United States, the European Union, Qatar, and Libya -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements.

"In September 2001, when the world's attention was focused on the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in New York, the president of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, cracked down on critics of his rule, accelerating Eritrea's slide into authoritarianism. Isaias imprisoned 11 members of his government, journalists, and others. Nothing has been heard from the prisoners since. This briefing paper pieces together what Human Rights Watch knows of what happened to the so-called G-15 prisoners: locked up incommunicado in secret prisons. Many of them are feared dead. The paper also describes the wide range of human rights abuses perpetrated by the Isaias regime: arbitrary and indefinite detention; torture; shocking jail conditions; restrictions on freedom of speech, movement, and belief; religious and ethnic persecution; and indefinite conscription and forced labor in national service. The briefing paper calls for the release of all political prisoners, access for independent monitors to Eritrea's jails, and other reforms."--P. [4] of cover.

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