Björn Tunbäck

Board member Reporters without Borders/Sweden. Investigative journalist Swedish Television. RT not the same as endorsement

[Susanne Berger @bergersus]

Imprisoned for 9,000 days – Dawit Isaak must be released now!
https://t.co/2YWTEZzVm9

Sweden & the EU cannot allow Eritrea to continue its evasions about #DawitIsaak's fate

[Björn Tunbäck @Tunback]

En dotters hopp efter 25 år: "Jag hoppas fortfarande att få återse honom. Att få prata med honom. Att få höra hans röst igen. Att få se honom skriva med den där pennan som alltid följde honom." Danait Isaak om #DawitIsaak olagligt fängslad i #Eritrea
https://t.co/TRCJVTdWEw

[Björn Tunbäck @Tunback]

9000 dagar och 1.000.000.000 hjärtslag senare: #DawitIsaak är fortfarande fängslad utan rättegång. Och alla oberoende medier är förbjudna i #Eritrea https://t.co/lIMlnTwpHi

[Tsegay Mehari @TemerO18056]

Medhanie is one of the Eritrean journalists who are imprisoned in 2001 and still we know nothing about his whereabouts and whether he is alive or not...

Medhanie är en av de eritreanska journalister som fängslades 2001 och vi vet fortfarande ingenting om han lever eller inte..

[Björn Tunbäck @Tunback]

Proud to say that our investigation Scam Empire - Bedragarnas imperium on @svt - is nominated to @EuroPressPrize Thnx to 3 million leaked files from their computers to @granskning + great cooperation through @OCCRP & 60+ colleagues we found the scammers. https://t.co/CjtLo0VITF

[Susanne Berger @bergersus]

https://t.co/hL0xVAjLoF

[Martin Plaut @martinplaut]

Eritrea – Urgent Protection Alert: Mass Arrests, Alleged Torture and Deportation
https://t.co/sgyuLqHMm8

[Martin Plaut @martinplaut]

Eritrea’s real journalists languish in prison: year after year. These are fakes. Puppets of the regime

[ቸጎቬራ ቸቸ @BahlbiY]

The case of Dawit Isaak stands as one of the clearest symbols of Eritrea’s brutal assault on freedom of expression.

Detained for years without charge or trial, cut off from his family and the world, this is a grave and unforgivable violation of the rule of law and human dignity.

Such cruelty tears families apart and reveals a totalitarian system that survives by silencing truth and punishing those who speak it.

#DawitIsaak must be released. Eritrea’s repression and attacks on free expression must never be normalized or forgotten.

#Eritrea #BlueRevolution #RegimeChangeInEritrea
@TheRWCHR @Edelstam @bergersus @ElizabethTecle @SwedenUN @SweMFA @SwedeninEU @BereketKahsai1 @Europarl_EN @StateDept @WeldetnsaeG @SenatorDurbin @TiborPNagyJr @mrubin1971 @KjetilTronvoll

[Journalistförbundet @journalistforb]

Ännu en fredag i fängelse för Dawit Isaak #freedawitisaak #freedawit

[Susanne Berger @bergersus]

"@MariaStenergard has avoided any direct criticism of Eritrea’s brutal treatment of a fellow Swede and EU citizen. Eritrea has so far not complied with her by now almost 4 months old demand to grant #DawitIsaak’s immediate release on humanitarian grounds." https://t.co/SUfFYAsuJ9

[🦅ኣሞራ🕎 ዓቃብ ሰላም @Afelbalaw]

Dawit Isaak was arrested during a major crackdown by the Eritrean government under President Isaias Afwerki, targeting independent journalists and reformist politicians (including the G-15 group) who called for democratic changes. He co-owned and wrote for Setit, Eritrea's first independent newspaper. He holds dual Eritrean-Swedish citizenship.

He is widely regarded as one of the world's longest-imprisoned journalists, held incommunicado (likely in facilities like Carchele prison or Eiraeiro camp), with reports of torture, poor health, and denial of medical care. Several fellow journalists arrested at the same time have died in custody. Eritrea has provided almost no information on his status, though officials have occasionally claimed he is alive but offered no proof or access.

#BlueRevolution #RegimeChangelnEritrea
@MariaStenergard @SweMFA #DawitIsaak #TransnationalRepression
@bergersus @TheRWCHR @HostageAid @JasonPoblete @MehariMeng53005 @journalistforb @pressfreedom @Tunback @bergersus @UNHumanRights @BBCWorld @Sverigesriksdag @sdriks @SvD @IntlCrimCourt @afric_insde #BlueRevolution #RegimeChangeInEritrea
#EBRF @Sverigesriksdag @SwedenGeneva @SwedeninEU @SwedenUN @SweMFA @moderaterna @svtnyheter @SvD
@SwedishPM @svt @sverigesradio @DNDebatt @Aftonbladet @Sweden

[The Edelstam Prize @Edelstam]

🇸🇪's new pragmatic approach to Eritrea has failed to secure any clear concessions from one of the world's most repressive regimes. ACT DECISIVELY NOW! @MariaStenergard @SweMFA . #DawitIsaak
@bergersus @TheRWCHR @HostageAid @JasonPoblete @MehariMeng53005
https://t.co/ZTFlcv0iwU

[Hostage Aid Worldwide @HostageAid]

5/5 A Scar That Never Heals: What 24 Years of Silence Did to Dawit Isaak—and to the “Civilized” World
https://t.co/K7zESrqGGM
Washington D.C. - Poblete Dispatches
A senior Swedish minister says she pressed, in person, for release and reunion; and Sweden now publicly assesses he is alive. Those are not endpoints. They are invitations for serious people to do serious work with fewer microphones. If the result is nothing more than a father walking through a doorway into a smaller, quieter life, scarred, older, carrying a heavy cross, that will be more than enough. @FreeDawit @JasonPoblete

[The Edelstam Prize @Edelstam]

After 24 years' detention, #DawitIsaak's case exposes failed diplomacy, says @JasonPoblete.🇸🇪says he is alive. The 🇺🇸and allies still have leverage–proof of life and release matter more than words. @MariaStenergard @SweMFA @TheRWCHR @HostageAid @bergersus
https://t.co/zq5uyshmQs

[Björn Tunbäck @Tunback]

.@ElsaChyrum on #DawitIsaak
detained w/o trial in #Eritrea since 2001: Exposing the Eritrean Government’s Insincerity and Manipulation @RSF_inter @FreeDawit @TheRWCHR @journalistforb @DefendDefenders @bergersus @Edelstam @CPJAfrica @blanksp_t @Utrikesdep https://t.co/JgGqZo30mH

[Hostage Aid Worldwide @HostageAid]

5/5 Pressure Eritrea to Free Dawit Isaak Now That the Country Is Releasing Other Prisoners
https://t.co/BSQs8a4GY5
Sweden - Göteborgs-Posten
The release of the thirteen can therefore be seen as a potential bright spot — an indication that the country may be moving in a new direction. But it also raises an uncomfortable question: how will @SweMFA proceed now, when Eritrea is actually releasing prisoners who have been held almost as long as Dawit Isaak, thereby showing that movement is indeed possible?
Now is the time for Sweden to take the next step. On 27 October this year, Dawit Isaak turned 61. He has spent the past 24 years in prison. The Swedish state must seize this opportunity and increase the pressure on Eritrea. @Tunback @Erik_Larsson @FreeDawit @BietelhemI

[Björn Tunbäck @Tunback]

Ja, vad gör @Utrikesdep nu? https://t.co/ryi7N8qlMG

[Björn Tunbäck @Tunback]

Och hur går arbetet för #DawitIsaak @Utrikesdep ?
@bergersus @Edelstam @journalistforb @ExpressenLedare @DNKultur @GPKultur @SvDledare @Sydsvenskankult @RSF_RUG @FreeDawit @KurdoBaksi

[Kjetil Tronvoll @KjetilTronvoll]

We must never forget #DawitIsaak and the 1000s of political prisoners languishing in Eritrea’s dungeons without trial. ⁦Free Eritrea from dictatorship - democratize!
@Edelstam⁩
«What Eritrea Appreciates Most is Sweden’s 24 Years of Public Silence” https://t.co/t1c79k8tPc

[Susanne Berger @bergersus]

"Silent diplomacy is a proper strategy in the early stages of difficult consular cases," says @KjetilTronvoll What strategies 🇸🇪 has tried in secret is not known, but an international public 'shaming campaign' against the regime, combined with targeted EU sanctions, is lacking.”