Eritrea - Eritrea's exile journalists appeal to international community

Reporters without borders

The Association of Eritrean Journalists in Exile (AEJE), a Reporters Without Borders partner organization, issued a press release on 18 September to mark the 11th anniversary of the Eritrean government's closure of the country's privately-owned media and the start of a wave of arrests of many of its journalists. The release calls on the European Union and United Nations to enforce the sanctions on Eritrean government officials. It also calls on the International Criminal Court to "pay a (...)

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