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Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) is calling for the release of 10 journalists who have been detained in Eritrea since 2001, including Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaac.
Isaac is the owner and editor of the weekly newspaper "Setit". He was arrested during a major crackdown in September 2001 when the regime outlawed the privately-owned press and threw most of the country's leading journalists in prison. He has been a Swedish citizen since the 1980s and is married with three children. He has been tortured while in detention. Swedish officials have tried to visit him several times but Eritrean authorities have refused permission. | <a href="http://ads.allafrica.com/adclick.php?n=cqo96v51l" target="_blank"> <img src="http://ads.allafrica.com/adview.php?what=en,_inset,_eritrea,-nonstory,en,_inset,_media,-nonstory,en,_inset,_humanrights,-nonstory|en,_inset,_ros,-nonstory&n=cqo96v51l&source=en,_inset,_eritrea,-nonstory,en,_inset,_media,-nonstory,en,_inset,_humanrights,-nonstory|en,_inset,_ros,-nonstory" border="0" alt=""/> </a> | RSF invites members of the public to sign a petition calling for the release of Isaac and his colleagues. Visit: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=3789 For background information, visit: http://www.cpj.org/attacks04/africa04/eritrea.html |
