On 14th April 2003, the Secretariat of the African Commission received a communication brought by Article 19 against the State of Eritrea, a State Party to the African Charter. Article 19 states that it is concerned especially about the continued detention incommunicado without trial of at least 18…

Since becoming an independent country in 1993, my country consistently and routinely harasses, imprisons, and tortures Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The complaint filed by Dr Liesbeth Zegveld, an international lawyer, and  Mr Mussie Ephrem, an Eritrean living in Sweden, against the State of Eritrea, a State Party to the African Charter. http://www.achpr.org/files/sessions/34th/comunications/250.02/achpr34_250_02_eng.pdf

Life Under PFDJ Introduction by the editor Mussie Hadgu has been relating to us his horrifying experience of Life under the PFDJ. In the first instalment of this series, he described the inhumane condition of Adersesr prison (otherwise known as Hadish Measker) near the border to Sudan, under…

Seyoum Tsehaye was born in Tukul in 1952 from his father Tsehaye Woldemariam and his mother Roma Solomon. His father was the owner of Bar Da’Osta at Campobollo in Asmara.

The land proclamation that the government had issued in 1994 puts land under government ownership and introduces a shift of land ownership from the “desa” tenure system to permanent private ownership to promote sustainable land use and conservation and protection of land, as it is believed…