The New York Times By VITTORIO LONGHI In Europe’s debate about how to deal with the flow of desperate migrants from Africa, there is an important element missing: the crisis in Eritrea. Every month almost 4,000 Eritreans flee to escape oppression, according to a United Nations special rapporteur. A visit to Asmara, the Eritrean capital,
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By Aljazeera President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea Several top Eritrean leaders have been reported to the police for crimes against humanity by a Swedish law firm, as a new law took effect enabling such crimes committed anywhere else in the world to be prosecuted in Sweden. The report lists a series of alleged crimes including
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By Aljazeera President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea Several top Eritrean leaders have been reported to the police for crimes against humanity by a Swedish law firm, as a new law took effect enabling such crimes committed anywhere else in the world to be prosecuted in Sweden. The report lists a series of alleged crimes including
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BBC Isaias Afewerki has been Eritrea’s president since 1993 The UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC) has set up a commission of inquiry into Eritrea, seen as one of the world’s most repressive states. The three-member panel will report back in one year. In a statement, the HRC condemned “widespread and systematic” human rights violations, including
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The Local 21 Mar 2014 An Eritrean woman and her eight children have been trapped at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport for more than a week after being deported by the Norwegian government. Norway’s immigration services deported Simreth Wolbgeber and…
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