Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of Eritreans have fled to escape from severe human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity, as has been documented by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea. Eritreans continue to flee indefinite military conscription, religious persecution, and political repression,…
Claiming to speak for “the people of Eritrea”, diaspora based Eritrean Government Supporting cliques who chose to live abroad in comfort have published a complete denial of every part of the remarkably extensive, witness-testimony-based report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights…
Yeneta Ezra, an Eritrean Monk, had been under constant surveillance and was often harassed and intimidated by government security agents for supporting the late Patriarch Antonios. He attended Abune Antonios’ funeral, and was imprisoned and fined 15000 Nakfa (Eritrean currency) for attending that perfectly legitimate religious…
CSW and Human Rights Concern Eritrea (HRCE) welcome the releases of three Catholic clergymen who weredetained arbitrarily by the Eritrean authorities in separate incidents in October 2022, despite belonging to a denomination that is ostensibly permitted to operate in the country. Abune Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim, the first…