Category: Press Release

Egypt Plans to Deport 18 Eritrean Refugees Illegally into Great Danger

A group of 18 Eritrean refugees, who have been arbitrarily detained in Egypt, are in grave danger of deportation, and there are plans to remove eight members of the group on Saturday, 23rd October 2021, to the very country they fled from. In October 2019, a…

5,000 Eritrean Refugees in Danger in Libya

An estimated 42,210 refugees and asylum-seekers are presently in Libya, of whom at least 5,000 (12%) are from Eritrea (UNHCR: Sept 2021). All of them now feel in grave danger, after over 5,000 of many nationalities were detained in less than a week in Tripoli.  The…

Bitweded Abraha: Eritrea’s Honest Hero Who Became a Silenced Victim

Wednesday, 6 October, 2021, was the 30th anniversary of the detention in Eritrea of Bitweded Abraha, pronounced to be unlawful by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.  Bitweded was one of the outstanding figures of Eritrea’s Liberation Struggle in the years from 1973 onwards. In…

EGYPT: Two Vulnerable Eritreans in Imminent Danger of Forced Return to Eritrea

The Egyptian Immigration Authorities are planning to return two Eritrean Asylum-Seekers to their country of origin where they are certain to be imprisoned and likely to face tortured or might even be killed. Alem Tesfay Abraham and Kibrom Adhanom have been detained at Al Qanater prison…

ETHIOPIA SHOULD LIFT THE UNJUSTIFIED SUSPENSION OF 2 AID AGENCIES IN TIGRAY

On July 30th 2021, Ethiopia suspended the operations within its territory of two International Aid Groups, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Doctors Without Borders.  This startling intervention by Ethiopia’s government comes at a time when reliable international experts predict that hundreds of thousands of civilians in Tigray…

TIGRAY: Massacres of 1,900 People in Tigray Confirmed by Eye-Witness Report Which Implicates Eritrean Military. Withdrawal of Eritrean Forces from Tigray Seriously in Doubt

A recent authoritative research study by Ghent University in Belgium has revealed the extent of the massacres of civilians in Tigray since the conflict began in November 2020. The report identifies 151 massacres, in which over 1,900 were killed in cold blood.  The researchers state from eye-witness testimony that Eritrean soldiers…