Amanuel Asrat is a journalist, poet, art critic and song writer.
On 23 September 2001, he was arrested during a crackdown on independent media. He was held at Eiraeiro prison before transfer in 2016 to an unknown facility. His whereabouts remain unknown.
We demand #ProofofLife
Two Eritrean Swedish citizens. Two very different realities. 🚫
Alexander Isak is celebrated throughout Sweden as a football star. His success is embraced by the media, politicians, and the public. He is a source of national pride and admiration.
Dawit Isaak is a Swedish Eritrean journalist who has spent decades imprisoned by one of the world's most repressive regimes. His only crime was believing in freedom of expression, independent journalism, and democratic rights. While Sweden proudly celebrates its sporting heroes, one of its own citizens remains deprived of his freedom without justice, accountability, or answers.
This contrast exposes a troubling reality. Sweden has no difficulty elevating those who bring prestige and international recognition, yet it has failed to secure the freedom of a journalist who sacrificed everything for the values Sweden claims to defend.
The issue is not football. The issue is principle. The issue is whether human rights, freedom of speech, and democratic values are defended consistently or only when politically convenient.
Dawit Isaak's case is not merely a personal tragedy. It is a test of Sweden's commitment to its own values. A nation that speaks proudly about human rights should not allow one of its citizens to disappear into the prisons of a dictatorship and then fade from the national conscience.
Dawit Isaak must not be forgotten. Justice delayed for decades is justice denied.
#EBRF #BlueRevolution #TransnationalRepression #NoMorePFDJTerror @Edelstam@JasonPoblete@SweMFA@SwedishPM@MariaStenergard@bergersus@TheRWCHR@ICJ_Africa@GLALegalDefense@AsstSecStateAF@SecRubio@DeputySecState@HouseForeignGOP@SenateForeign@SFRCdems@HouseForeignGOP
Honored to discuss all things Eritrea and the Horn with Eritrean Blue Revolution Front's TV channel. Of course Dictator Isaias' trolls and sycophants will hate it and I'm looking forward to their hate mail with delight. Truth is Truth - God bless freedom!
https://t.co/NXSdBEZGZs
Your prayers are needed after the arrest of 13 Christians from a single undisclosed location in #Eritrea. It’s understood that one of them had been released from prison last year, having spent 15 years in detention.
It is presumed that none of them will be charged with any crime, nor are they expected to be tried in a court of law. Not one of the thousands of believers arrested over the past 24 years since the government outlawed all Christian worship outside the Orthodox, Catholic and Lutheran traditions have ever benefitted from any legal process.
Eritrea is number 5 on the #WorldWatchList, making it a place of extreme persecution for many believers.
Please pray
Please pray
- That God’s peace will reign in the believers' hearts, and that they will feel the Holy Spirit's empowerment to remain strong in their faith
- For the Lord’s comfort to sustain their families, and for all provisions to be met
- For greater religious freedom in Eritrea
- That God will continue to build His kingdom in Eritrea, despite human efforts to suppress and silence the church.
Persecution in Eritrea: https://t.co/4itqcvZh3Z
Speaking on the sidelines of the recently-concluded Africa Media Festival (@africamediafest) in Nairobi, award-winning journalist and poet Yirgalem Fisseha reflects on her own six-year imprisonment in #Eritrea and the need to campaign for journalists who have spent nearly 25 years behind bars for their work.
“This is not only about them - it’s about our rights.”
#JournalismIsNotaCrime #PressFreedomIsYourFreedom
Read more about #Eritrea's detained journalists: https://t.co/rc6iCMBeBz
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟖 is Int'l Women's Day. #IWD2026
In #Eritrea, a country suffering from ultra extreme repression that is threatening its very survival, the mafia-terror pfdj regime use March 8 to present a progressive and caring image to Eritreans & the world (@nahlav@unhrcpr@UN_Women) by coordinating regime organized public celebrations in an attempt to mask and distract from the underlying systemic oppression that has transformed Eritrean women below the level that existed in primitive society.
There cannot be an agenda to separately advance “women’s rights” in any system, much less in a totalitarian one that depends on stripping citizens rights and dignity. The Eritrean woman has her children scattered across the world or indefinitely conscripted into the PFDJ army with no future. Her husband, brother, sister, or cousin may be disappeared or arbitrarily jailed without due process of law, or lost in evil purposed wars. Her fellow freedom fighters have been imprisoned indefinitely without charge simply for voicing reason.
Women's right or progress towards that end in pfdj run Eritrea is pure Lie.