Human Rights Concern-Eritrea (HRCE) maintains without any reservations that enforced labour by Eritrean conscripts engaged under the compulsory National Service programme continues in internationally owned mines in Eritrea.
Category: Press Release
Eritrean Conscripts Are Not Slaves
Recently, the Information Minister of Eritrea, Mr Yemane Gebermeskel, confirmed that indefinite National Service is going to remain without fundamental change, but that the government is planning to increase the present very low wages paid to conscripts: Eritrea won’t shorten national service despite migration fears.
How Much More Mistreatment Before Mr. Tesfagaber Haile Desta Can be Reunited with His Daughter?
A 52-year-old Eritrean former political prisoner, who fled his country after being tortured systematically, and who subsequently endured several beatings at the hands officers at the immigration and detention Centre in Brussels after seeking asylum there is currently sitting in a cold metal chair in an…
Open Letter to Rt Hon. David Cameron MP
HRCE director, Elizabeth Chyrum, sends an open letter to Rt Hon. David Cameron MP expressing deep concern on the Home Office’s permission of the UKBA to use a completely discredited Danish report as the criteria for determining the outcome of applications filed by Eritrean asylum-seekers who have fled…