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• gistered churches were being detained, harassed, and abused. The government has continued suppressing civil society, religious practice, and political dissent. Arbitrary detention remains the authorities’ most common method of stifling independent action by citizens.

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• ith its own citizens or with the international community. This report updates and expands on Amnesty International's previously published information about arbitrary detention in Eritrea.(1) It describes new evidence of torture and religious persecution, and sets out the political context in which human rights violations continue to be committed with impunity. It concludes with recommendations

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• e ruling party. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and other international trade union organisations have lodged a complaint at these arbitrary detentions with the International Labour Office (ILO).

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• continue to be reported, inter alia , with regard to the treatment of opposition political groups and movements, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, arbitrary detention and detention conditi ons (including reports of torture, ill-treatment and forced labor) and treatm ent of draft evaders/deserters.” [18f] 3.18 Other sources note that since 2003, the Govern ment has proceeded to p

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• has failed in practice to abide by these obligations or by its own constitution. The courts are not independent or effective, and there is no legal redress for arbitrary detention or “disappearance.” Eritrean security forces commit human rights abuses with total impunity.

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• This report updates and expands on Amnesty International's previously published information about arbitrary detention in Eritrea.(1) It describes new evidence of torture and religious persecution, and sets out the political context in which human rights violations continue to be committed with impunity. It concludes with recommendations to the Government of Eritrea and the international community

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• SK of FORCIBLE RETURN A group of 118 male asylum-seekers face imminent forcible return from Egypt to Eritrea, where they would be at grave risk of torture and arbitrary detention. After being arrested and detained in and around the city of Aswan, southern Egypt, 118 male Eritrean asylum-seekers have been recently transferred to a compound in Shallal, a town south of the city. Security forces hav

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• a strong proponent of good governance. His comments are sensible, balanced and with sound justification, because of which he should not have been condemned to arbitrary detention, had there been a democratic and elected government in Eritrea.

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• unhcr.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) to treat the persons as refugees and protect them from arbitrary detention by the Yemeni authorities. *Similarly, a judgment has passed over 9 Eritrean in the Ukraine to be deported to Eritrea. There is a concerted effort by the American Team, a refugee service organization and ICER to halt

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• Events of 2012 Torture, arbitrary detention, and severe restrictions on freedom of expression, association, and religious freedom remain routine in Eritrea. Elections have not been held since Eritrea gained independence in 1993, the constitution has never been implemented, and political parties are not allowed. There are no institutional constraints on President Isaias Afewerki, now in his twen

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• ans returned to Ethiopia, most after losing their jobs or becoming destitute as a result of the hostilities. However, there appeared to have been some cases of arbitrary detention and ill-treatment during the first few weeks of the conflict, and some leaders of the Ethiopian community in Assab were reportedly still held without charge or trial at the end of the year.

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• ation with international and regional human rights mechanisms by Eritrea; The HRC: Calls upon the Government of Eritrea, without delay: (a) To end its use of arbitrary detention of its citizens, and to end the use of torture and inhumane and degrading treatment and punishment; (b) To account for and release all political prisoners, including the “G-11”; (c) To ensure free and fair access to an i

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• – minority religious communities. The United States government has repeatedly declared Eritrea a Country of Particular Concern because of its widespread and arbitrary detention of members of minority communities, especially Jehovah’s Witnesses and Evangelical Christians. The Ecumenical Canonical Orthodox Church Worldwide reports that there are also some 2,000 to 3,000 Orthodox Christians i

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• ematically perpetrated by the authorities with impunity and without any possibility of legal protection or judicial redress. Constitutional protections against arbitrary detention and unfair trial (Article 17) and against torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 16) are also not respected in practice. There is no Constitutional Court to rule on the implementation of

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• officers without any form of trial, legal recourse or opportunity to appeal or redress. The forms of punishment may vary, but usually consist of torture and arbitrary detention for an indefinite period.” [19] (p94) 9.28 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-seekers from Eritrea, published

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• ematically perpetrated by the authorities with impunity and without any possibility of legal protection or judicial redress. Constitutional protections against arbitrary detention and unfair trial (Article 17) and against torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (Article 16) are also not respected in practice. There is no Constitutional Court to rule on the implementation of

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• s continue to be reported, inter alia, with regard to the treatment of opposition political groups and movements, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, arbitrary detention and detention conditions (including reports of torture, ill-treatment and forced labor) and treatment of draft evaders/deserters.” [18f] 3.18 A Reuters report dated 15 September 2007 stated that the “Eritrean Presid

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• 1" Amnesty International is reiterating its appeal to the Ethiopian government to put an immediate stop to the deportations and ill-treatment of deportees, and arbitrary detentions of thousands of other Eritreans, including 38 students in Blattein military camp. They contravene Ethiopia’s laws and Constitution, as well as the international human rights treaties Ethiopia has ratified." –Amnesty Int

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• . Amnesty International is reiterating its appeal to the Ethiopian government to put an immediate stop to the deportations and ill-treatment of deportees, and arbitrary detentions of thousands of other Eritreans, including 38 students in Blattein military camp. They contravene Ethiopia's laws and Constitution, as well as the international human rights treaties Ethiopia has ratified. In the event

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• Increasing numbers of Eritreans are fleeing the indefinite national military service imposed by the Eritrean government and pervasive arbitrary detention and torture. Eritrea routinely imprisons individuals caught trying to flee the country and implements "shoot to kill" orders for anyone crossing the border without permission. If the government identifies someone who has successfully crossed into

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• its leaders. But while that spirit may be useful in times of war, it can have devastating effects on the civil society in times of peace. Since its inception, arbitrary detentions and cases of torture, rape, and extrajudicial killings have marred the regime – as was reported by a special UN commission in June 2016. According to the report, more than 400,000 Eritreans have been enslaved in the nat

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• soners of conscience, held for peacefully expressing their opinions. Their continued detention flouts Eritrea's own constitutional and legal safeguards against arbitrary detention, and disregards commitments to international human rights standards made only recently by the government.

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• pposition from their political opponents, whether internal or exile, and have reacted in various ways which have included human rights violations. In Ethiopia, arbitrary detentions of suspected government opponents, including opposition parties and the private press, "disappearances" and torture or ill-treatment of political prisoners, are widespread. The government has made blanket denials of abu

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• The Eritrean government is carrying on wide spread arbitrary detentions since the liberation of the country in 1991. General Biteweded Abrha, a former Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front’s (EPLF) fighter, the organisation currently governing Eritrea, is detained without trial in a solitary cell since 1992. It is said that he has become mentally disturbed as the result of his long solitary confinemen

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• isit the country and that panel members based their report on interviews with Eritreans living outside the country. Many of the Eritreans described a system of arbitrary detention without warrant or judicial process and said they were tortured after their arrest.

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• aped from Eritrea to Sudan and Ethiopia, with Eritrean refugees who fled to Sudan during national struggle for independence and with religious men. To document arbitrary detention, the team met some Sudanese who were detained in Eritrean prisons.

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• plemented Constitution provide safeguards and specific rights for defendants in the regular court system. Among other things, the law prohibits indefinite and arbitrary detention, requires arrested persons to be brought before a court within 48 hours, and sets a limit of 28 days in which an arrested person may be held without being charged with a criminal offence. However, this legal limit is

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• an aid official, asylum seekers who arrive in Malta, including Eritreans, are detained for long periods in sub-standard conditions.316 The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited Malta in January 2009 and raised concerns about Malta’s automatic detention of immigrants, including asylum seekers, for long periods without recourse to a court of law. “We consider that the detention regime

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• Increasing numbers of Eritreans are fleeing the indefinite national military service imposed by the Eritrean government and the pervasive arbitrary detention and torture. Eritrea routinely imprisons individuals caught trying to flee the country and issues “shoot to kill” orders for anyone found crossing the border without permission. If the government identifies someone who successfully crosses in

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• Amnesty International is reiterating its appeal to the Ethiopian government to put an immediate stop to the deportations and ill-treatment of deportees, and arbitrary detentions of thousands of other Eritreans, including 38 students in Blattein military camp.

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• s of widespread abuses. Thousands of people fled the country in 2009 due to Eritrea’s serious human rights violations and indefinite military conscription. Arbitrary Detention, Enforced Disappearances, and Deaths in Custody Thousands of Eritreans are estimated to be incarcerated in known and secret detention facilities. In September 2001 the government arrested eleven high-ranking govern

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• Increasing numbers of Eritreans are fleeing the indefinite national military service imposed by the Eritrean government and pervasive arbitrary detention and torture. Eritrea routinely imprisons individuals caught trying to flee the country and has "shoot to kill" orders for anyone crossing the border without permission. If the government identifies someone who has successfully crossed into Ethiop

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• soners of conscience, held for peacefully expressing their opinions. Their continued detention flouts Eritrea's own constitutional and legal safeguards against arbitrary detention, and disregards commitments to international human rights standards made only recently by the government.

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• Eritrea is among the most closed countries in the world; human rights conditions remain dismal. Indefinite military service, torture, arbitrary detention, and severe restrictions on freedoms of expression, association, and religion provoke thousands of Eritreans to flee the country each month. Among those fleeing in 2013 were the minister of information—whose 85-year-old father, brother, and 15-ye

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• humane conditions of confinement; restrictions on freedom of speech, movement, and belief; and indefinite conscription and forced labor in national service. Arbitrary Detention Since September 2001 or even before, Eritreans from all walks of life—government officials, leaders of government-controlled labor unions, businesspeople, journalists, and national service evaders or escapees—have been

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• ing here that some of the children and women who fled to Ethiopia or the Sudan are families of those who are in service fleeing famine and starvation. 3.1.2 Arbitrary detention Many keen observers of the situation in Eritrea considered the country as an open prison where dissenters are not only confined in prison cells, underground dungeons and in containers placed in open fields with oppress

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• officers without any form of trial, legal recourse or opportunity to appeal or redress. The forms of punishment may vary, but usually consist of torture and arbitrary detention for an indefinite period.” [19] (p94) Punishment of relatives of national service evaders 9.28 An Eritrea Daily report, dated 18 December 2008, stat ed that mutinying Eritrean army units had freed 618 people fro

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• te of Eritrea.53 Zegveld was a proceeding brought on behalf of the G-15 prisoners; Article 19 was filed on behalf of the journalists. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Eritrea had violated articles 9 and 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Isaias government has ignored the African Commission and Working Group decisions. In Zegveld, the African Commiss

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• ued rulings significantly at variance with government positions, and constitutional guarantees are often ignored in cases related to state security. Torture, arbitrary detentions, and political arrests are common. The Kunama people, one of Eritrea‘s nine ethnic groups, reportedly face severe discrimination. The government has worked to improve the status of women, codifying equal educational o

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• condition of life in the desert camps has worsened. Most of the new arrivals are young Eritreans who are exhausted from the indefinite conscription as well as arbitrary detentions, torture, and lack of civil liberties.

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• Amnesty International is reiterating its appeal to the Ethiopian government to put an immediate stop to the deportations and ill-treatment of deportees, and arbitrary detentions of thousands of other Eritreans, including 38 students in Blattein military camp. Deporting a people to their land of origin is one thing; but why that extra abuse? And what did it have to do with Badme? It is hard

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• But a report from Amnesty International claims: "Torture, arbitrary detention, disappearances and ill-treatment of political prisoners have become entrenched," adding that in the past year there had been "an upsurge of religious persecution". The government officially sanctions only four religions.

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• Since the crackdown two-and- a-half years ago on peaceful dissent and calls for democratic reform, torture, arbitrary detention, "disappearances" and ill-treatment of political prisoners have become entrenched in Eritrea, Amnesty International said today in a new report, Eritrea:' You have no right to ask' - Government resists scrutiny on human rights......

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• suffering under Issayas oppressive regime, where lives are squandered, economy destroyed, properties confiscated, kidnapping, disappearances, imprisonment and arbitrary detention are the norm of the day, the hypocrite cadre of Issayas, Alamin, comes to lecture the people on how democratic and nationalistic his regime is. Given the history of Alamin, It is not surprising that he, as the darling ag

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• soners of conscience, held for peacefully expressing their opinions. Their continued detention flouts Eritrea’s own constitutional and legal safeguards against arbitrary detention, and disregards commitments to international human rights standards made only recently by the government.

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• "Credible sources indicate that violations of human rights include arbitrary detention, torture, summary executions, forced labor, forced conscription, and restrictions to freedom of movement, expression, assembly and religion," she said.

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• extend an official invitation for visits by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

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