Mass Arrests of Tigrayans and Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia

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There are an increasing number of reports of Tigrayans being rounded up in Addis Ababa and other parts of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian police have confirmed the arrests of “many people”. Although Ethiopia denies it, there are fears that Tigrayans are being ethnically targeted. Many Eritrean refugees…

Egypt Plans to Deport 18 Eritrean Refugees Illegally into Great Danger

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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

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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

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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…

An Open Letter to Egyptian President, H.E. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

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Re: Planned Forced Return of Two Refugees into Extreme Danger in Eritrea Your Excellency, We are writing to you most urgently about the cases of Eritrean refugees, Alem Tesfay Abraham and Kibrom Adhanom, who have been illegally detained at Al Qanater prison, Cairo, since 2012 and…

A Grim Anniversary

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September 18th is for all Eritreans a date embedded in their consciousness, but not for the usual reasons that we remember a life-changing date and celebrate it. September 18th is a GRIM Anniversary, a dark date not to be celebrated, but remembered as the start of…

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

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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

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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…