Human Rights Violations committed in 2008


Source asena
The Perilous Status of Eritrean Refugees Source awate.com
State TV journalist secretly sentenced in 2006 to five years of forced labour Source: Reporters Without Borders
For PFDJ, Yesterday's Target Is Today's Income Opportunity Source awate.com
GENOCIDE 2008 Source awate.com
Eritrean Christian Killed In Military Camp Source asena
40 Muslim clerics and scholars, including those named above, were arrested by soldiers on 13 and 14 August Source[UA 239/08 Torture]
A large scale of arrest & torture took place in southern region towns Senafe and Adi Caih [Source asena]
37-year-old Eritrean Christian woman has died while in custody in Eritrea [Source asena]
Eritreans forcibly returned 'to torture' [Source cs.asmarino.com]
Egyptian authorities threaten to deport 150 Eritrean refugees [Source cs.asmarino.com]
Jailed pastors in Eritrea could face treason charges [Source cs.asmarino.com]
Sustainability Index (MSI) Africa 2006-2007 :Eritrea [Source IREX]
Human Rights Eritrea 2007 [Source cs.asmarino.com]

[Source Eritrean National Salvation Front]
Eritrea: Journalist Employed By State-Owned Radio Dimtsi Hafash Held Since 2006 [Source Reporters Without Borders]
Eritrea Forcing Christian Ministers into Military Camps [Source christianpost.com]

[Source cs.asmarino.com]
Where's my mom? Arrested by Egyptian border police [Source Haaretz.com]
Eritrea’s Worsening Human Rights Abuses and Israeli Concerns [Source asena]
Eritrean ambassador: Jerusalem must repatriate 'deserters' [Source asena]
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007 Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor March 11, 2008 [Source the U.S. State Department]
It could have been me [Aster and ten others arrested with her have been held without charge since 2001] Published by Glenys Kinnock
Another 10 Protestants jailed for five years also freed; Muslim leader dies in prison. [Source Compass Direct]
More Deaths by Torture in Eritrea [Source Compass Direct]
Libyan authorities deport 30 Eritreans to Asmara [Source adoulis.com]
Taha Mohammed Nur Co-Founder of ELF, died in prison [Source awate.com
Egypt decides to deport 13 Eritrean [Source adoulis.com]
Egypt arrests 77 Eritrean and deports 48 others [Source adoulis.com]
Egyptian police killed Eritrean woman who tried to slip across the border with two daughters, aged eight and 10 [Source cs.asmarino.com]
UNHCR says Eritrean refugees arriving on Sudan border [Source asena]
Eritrea has replaced North Korea as the last place country on RWB's index [Source cs.asmarino.com]
Human Rights Watch: Report events of 2007 [Text in English] [Text in Arabic] [Source Suwera ]
17 Eritrean refugees Sank in Setit River [Source GIC]
Sudan’s military campaign against “illegal immigrants”:A psychological warfare against Eritrean refugees [Source Eritrean Research & Documentation Centre]

Eritrean asylum seekers in Egypt and Libya under unwarranted threat of forced deportation [Source nharnet]
New revelations about Eiraeiro prison camp [Source Reporters Without Borders]
Sweden and the Case of an ‘Eritrean Torture Victim’ [Source asena]
Sweden to deport man to Eritrea [Source asena]


Mr Kiflu is reported to be a well known criminal who has put many people in jail without any due legal process and has inflicted torture and pain on innocent people. Although it is difficult to prove most of his crimes, at least three people gave evidence to Metropolitan Police and many others spoke to Elizabeth Chyrum of their experiences of Mr Kiflu’s cruelty. Read more...
3 people from Goluge were arrested on 16/12/2008 [Source ewhrd.com]