#FreeEritreas12: Fessehaye ‘Joshua’ Yohannes, Eritrean playwright, poet and journalist, in September 2001, during the government’s crackdown on independent media, he was jailed in an unknown location. For nearly 25 years, he has been imprisoned without charge or trial. His fate and whereabouts remain unknown.
PEN International, PEN Eritrea in Exile, and PEN Centres worldwide demand proof of life. #WhereAreThey?
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SPECIAL DA'ERONA COMMUNITY X SPACE
We are honored to host Dan Connell, renowned journalist, author, and one of the world's leading experts on Eritrea.
Topic:
Eritrea Under Dictatorship: Transnational Repression, Regional Dynamics, and the Struggle for Democratic Change
📅 Saturday, June 27, 2026 🕖 19:00 Berlin Time 📍 X Spaces
Join us for an important discussion on Eritrea's past, present, and future.
#Daerona #BlueRevolution #Eritrea #TransnationalRepression
@martinplaut@TiborPNagyJr@michelawrong@Daerona2024@asmarino80@Niharinetna@TsehayeAwet@Tweetfree19e@BeyeneGerezghe1@BereketKahsai1
Dan Connell
Renowned journalist, author, and one of the world’s leading experts on Eritrea.
For more than four decades, Dan Connell has documented Eritrea’s liberation struggle, post-independence developments, human rights issues, political prisoners, and the aspirations of the Eritrean people through his research, reporting, and books.
📚 Selected Works:
▪️ Against All Odds
▪️ Taking on the Superpowers
▪️ Building a New Nation
▪️ Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners
📅 Saturday, June 27, 2026
🕖 19:00 Berlin Time
🎙️ Platform: X Spaces
🎯 Topic:
“Eritrea Under Dictatorship: Transnational Repression, Regional Dynamics, and the Struggle for Democratic Change”
This discussion will explore Eritrea’s political realities, the impact of transnational repression on Eritreans abroad, regional developments in the Horn of Africa, and the prospects for democratic change and justice. Dan Connell will provide opening remarks followed by an interactive Q&A session with participants.
We warmly invite all Eritreans, friends of Eritrea, human rights advocates, researchers, journalists, and supporters of democracy to join us for this important conversation.
@martinplaut@michelawrong@TemerO18056
UN Special Rapporteur highlights Eritrean Government’s Transnational Repression and abuse of Religious communities in Annual Human Rights Report. Also ongoing sexual abuse during National Service 1/2
https://t.co/spsuXOEr1a
"WE ARE THE BLUE REVOLUTION! STAND FOR TRUTH. STAND FOR JUSTICE. STAND FOR FREEDOM."*
*"THIS IS NOT OUR INDEPENDENCE. THIS IS NOT OUR REALITY. WE DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. JUSTICE. FREEDOM."*
*"ONE NATION. ONE PEOPLE. ONE DESTINY.
#BlueRevolution
#Eritrea
https://t.co/mqy1DOwzxf
“One of the losses in the last, how many years of national service (NS) is that it was a NS (youth who completed their regular mandatory national service) left thrown on the street after failing their college entrance exams, even the MAMOS program we introduced (supposedly to help them) did not work. And there was no deployment to the military (referring a time where NS were not being deployed to the military – there never was such a time), tens of thousands every year, almost the number of youths left aimlessly idle cannot be underestimated.”
The tyrant is putting the blame on the youth for giving up on an educational system that groom them to be regime slaves for life. And, present his regime as a benevolent actor who cares and try alternative methods to help the youth in education 🙄 making it sound like it is a "No Child Left Behind" program😠
The delusion is stark. It is a display of regime's despise to the Eritrean people. pfdj has set up a conveyor belt that churns out uneducated, unawaken, indoctrinated to militarism & servile obedience youth to subdue and control the people. Ensuring unchecked grip on power in the nation. To do as it feels fit. Not checked by any lawful body and institutions.
Lawlessness is the highest form of corruption, and hence a reflection of total failure in a nation. This is the reason why Eritrea is a failed nation.
The suffering of #DawitIsaak will continue as long as 🇸🇪 does not change its strategy by taking strong measures, such as immediately closing the 🇪🇷’n embassy in Stockholm and ending festivals that are the regime's source of income.#BlueRevolution@MehariMeng53005@MariaStenergard
35 YEARS IS ENOUGH. WE WANT REAL FREEDOM!"*
*"ERITREA IS NOT FREE. ERITREANS ARE NOT FREE."*
The message: 35 years after independence from Ethiopia, people still don’t have basic freedom. The regime has “stolen our independence” through human rights abuses.
#BlueRevolution
#UNHCR & #UN when will you take serious action with the #Eritrea|n refugees in Isreal are living worst-case circumstances. Cadres of the PFDJ are killing Eritrean pro-democracy in daylight time in the city of TelAviv. #TransnationalRepression#BlueRevolution
Eritrean government isn't a government he is a mafia group that does whatever he wants and do propaganda to the world using festivals so they accept him as a legal government. #theblurevolution says no to this unlawful act in our land and work to expose this truth.
#Eritrea #TransnationalRepression #BlueRevolutionEritrea #NoMorePFDJPropaganda #Eritrean_Justice_Seekers #EritreaShinesAt33
It is time for the UN 🇺🇳 to adress Eritreans in Israel and maintain peace and security for these refugees.
UNHCR has been following the rising tensions within the Eritrean community with great concern. UNHCR is calling upon all Eritrean community members, from all political groups, to avoid violence and maintain public order. UNHCR notes that all refugees and asylum seekers are obliged to respect the law of the host country.
The violence within the Eritrean community affects in many ways, not only those directly involved, but all refugees and asylum-seekers in Israel. Any violent incident can harm the majority of the asylum-seeker community which are hard-working and peaceful residents of Israel.
In light of this, UNHCR urges all members of the Eritrean community to exercise restraint, avoid violence and manage disagreements in a peaceful manner. If acts of violence occur, they should be reported to the Israeli Police which holds responsibility to act upon the persons involved.
@UN_HRC@UN@UNHumanRights
https://t.co/CQ7nQHVSOr
@nahlav@FAOEritrea@UNinEritrea Where is the declaration of human rights about Eritrean. what more than a million of the 5 million are scattered all over the world because of the dictatorship there spoon terrible silence jonesaid but 33 years of silence about it.
@hrw@UN_HRC@HumanProgress@IntlCrimCourt
🙏🇮🇱 but action must follow. How many more #Eritrean lives is it going to take? They could've stayed in #Eritrea & delt w/their fate. @IsraeliPM & #Eritrean pple, HOW EMBARRASSING?! We must NOT normalize killing each other. If #IsaiasAfwerki benefited us ALL in any way, why flee?