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Undated photo of Dawit Isaak who remains in jail in Eritrea.www.freedawit.com/Handout
It was an everyday Sunday morning in 2001 when two massive males, carrying comparable satisfies, arrived at the entrance of a property in Eritrea. A young lady named Betlehem opened the door. The two guys requested to see her father.
Her father, Dawit Isaak, politely invited the guys to sign up for the household for breakfast. Betlehem, who was seven at the time, remembers vividly what happened following the meal: “They said, ‘We have to go.’ And they took my father.”
Far more than two many years later on, Mr. Isaak stays in jail in Eritrea. No one has viewed him for many a long time. He has hardly ever been granted a demo. He is believed to be a single of the world’s longest-imprisoned journalists – and a image of the crushed freedoms below Africa’s most repressive routine.
This week, a report by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s doing work group on arbitrary detention said Mr. Isaak’s long imprisonment was a violation of international covenants. It expressed “utmost concern” around his 22-year detention “without any prospect of trial” and voiced alarm