An inexplicable experience of an Eritrean Immigration Detainee in the UK

It is painful and traumatic to be forced to leave one’s home and seek refuge and protection in a foreign country. I fled my country for fear of political persecution and here to the United Kingdom believing that I would be given protection until the political and human rights situations in my country gets better.

Further exposing the severity of the Eritrean government’s crisis, informed sources in Ethiopia and Eritrea; have confirmed that the Voice of Americas stringer from Asmara Mr. Aklilu Solomon has managed to safely escape to Ethiopia. This news comes with the background that recently the Eritrean government has arrested most of its own journalists to further discourage the flight of government journalists to neighboring countries as well as to Europe. It is obvious that the measure has not stamped out the determined effort by Eritrean journalists to flee from the grip of the authoritarian regime.

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From Malta to torture and death: Chilling documentary interviews ‘ex-Malta’ deportees

Four years after Malta controversially repatriated 223 Eritrean irregular migrants, the country is still haunted by that decision, and the subsequent fate of the deportees.