Eritrea - Journalists still hunted down nine years after September 2001 purges

Reporters without borders

The Eritrean authorities continue to gag all forms of free expression and recently arrested another journalist as he was trying to flee the country, Reporters Without Borders said today, on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the start of a brutal political purge in Asmara on 18 September 2001. The organisation wrote to the British authorities yesterday urging them to prosecute one of the purge's organisers, who now lives in Britain. Journalist Eyob Kessete of state-owned radio Dimtsi (...)

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