Military Offensive in Tigray Endangers Eritrean Refugees

By HRCE
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November 7, 2020November 9, 2020

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, has ordered the military to confront the Tigrayan regional government because, he says, it attacked a military base; he has also cited months of “provocation and incitement”. Heavy fighting is reported to have broken out in Tigray —the Northernmost of 9 regional…

Hunger Strike by Two Eritrean Refugees in Long-Term Detention in Al-Qanater Prison in Cairo, Egypt

By HRCE
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October 28, 2020

Two Eritrean refugees (aged 36 and 41), enduring long-term detention without charge in a prison for criminals in Egypt, have been on hunger strike since yesterday, 27th October 2020, in protest at the prolonged injustice of their treatment. Both men have been detained for 8 years without…

Amnesty International Applauds Settlement in Landmark Nevsun Resources Mining Case

By HRCE
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October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

(Amnesty International, Oct 23, 2020) Canadian companies must take responsibility for human rights abuses abroad, says human rights organization Amnesty International is welcoming news that a group of Eritrean plaintiffs have reached an out-of-court settlement in a lawsuit against Canadian mining company, Nevsun Resources. The…

Landmark settlement is a message to Canadian companies extracting resources overseas: Amnesty International

By HRCE
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October 25, 2020

(CBC, by Yvette Brend, Oct 23, 2020) 3 refugees from Eritrea alleged forced work at a gold, copper and zinc mine controlled by Nevsun A human rights lawsuit alleging slavery and torture has been settled outside of court with a Canadian mining company for an undisclosed…

UN Human Rights Council Official Communication Highlights Long-Term Detention in Prison of Eritrean Refugees in Egypt

By HRCE
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October 23, 2020

On July 23rd 2020, officials of the UN Human Rights Council sent a memorandum to the Government of Egypt questioning the long-term detention without charge or trial of two Eritrean refugees in a prison for criminals. Because of enforced conscription of all Eritreans of 18 years…

Bitweded Abraha with baby daughter, circa 1990

A Flagrant Abuse of Human Rights under International Law – the Eritrean government’s continued illegal detention of Bitweded Abraha

By HRCE
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October 7, 2020

Yesterday, 6 October, 2020, was the 29th anniversary of the detention in Eritrea of Bitweded Abraha, an incarceration pronounced to be unlawful by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Eritrea fought a protracted war with Ethiopia to secure its independence, a war which only ended…

Eritrea: Nothing Has Changed

By HRCE
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September 18, 2020

ERITREA: How did a new nation’s hopes and expectations for freedom and democracy come to be so brutally dashed? And why do we particularly remember this deprivation each year on 18th September? At the end of the war with Ethiopia, a group of Eritrean academics and…

Arbitrary Punishments, Incommunicado Detention and Other Injustices Against the People of Kuazien are a Continuation of the Eritrean Regime’s Inhuman Actions

By HRCE
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September 17, 2020

Within Eritrean society, there exist questions of ownership of land that are frequently raised among people in villages and towns and which create some kinds of societal frictions. These questions are minor in nature and can easily be resolved through arbitration, with the help of village…

“Destination Unknown”: Enforced Disappearances in Eritrea

By HRCE
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September 1, 2020

Are you aware that In Eritrea, if the government so wishes, you may be arrested and just disappear without trace, without legal process and without anyone having any means of finding out what has happened to you? Eritrea remains an appallingly unsafe place for political dissenters…

Ethiopian Premier Does Not Want to Know the Truth about Eritrea

By HRCE
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July 31, 2020July 31, 2020

In a recent interview with an Ethiopian journalist, the Premier of Ethiopia was asked about reported plans by Eritrea and Ethiopia to attack the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. In his answer, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Dr. Abiy Ahmed, denied the plan, and paid tributes to the Government of…

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