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• issioner for Human Rights reported that there were between 5,000 and 10,000 political prisoners in Eritrea. The police are poorly paid and prone to corruption. Prison conditions are harsh, and outside monitors such as the International Committee of the Red Cross are denied access to detainees. Juvenile prisoners are often incarcerated alongside adults. In some facilities, inmates are held in metal

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• political prisoners (see Prison Conditions below). I was questioned in police station 6 in Asmara. There are different types of interrogation: physical and psychological. The first step is asking questions if I had a hand in the G-15. Then they change methods, try to get the truth by force. There is a big fence in the back of the 6th police station, with a tree—

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• ent day(12). How many of the "disappeared" still survive in secret prisons, or have been extra-judicially executed or have died of illness as a result of harsh prison conditions and denial of medical treatment, cannot be estimated. One recent case of alleged extra-judicial execution is that of Abdallah Ali Abdallah, an army colonel who had left the ELF and joined the EPLF in 1986, becoming ele

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• ue to a well-f ounded fear of persecution as a result of subsequent developments as described in these Guidelines. V. Further human rights considerations 1. Prison conditions Prison conditions in Eritrea are, as reported by several sources and claimants themselves, very poor.182 Prisoners are reportedly held in unventilated metal shipping containers in extreme temperatures or in dark undergr

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• Only a few personnel have been allowed to visit the detention centre and observe the prison conditions, otherwise, there is a strict restriction against allowing access to any outsider. A group of UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) representatives visited the detention centre roughly three months before IHRC conducted this research. They were only permitted to make a list of the

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• ment through a democratic process; unlawful killings by security forces; torture and beatings of prisoners, some resulting in death; harsh and life threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; government infringement on privacy rights; government roundups of young men and women for

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• lting in death; abuse and torture of national service evaders, some of whom reportedly died of their injuries whil e in detention; harsh and life threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of national service evaders and their family members; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; and infringement on

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• ent day(12). How many of the "disappeared" still survive in secret prisons, or have been extra-judicially executed or have died of illness as a result of harsh prison conditions and denial of medical treatment, cannot be estimated.

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• 2001 Human Rights organizations, civic society, journalists and NGO have published enormous number of articles, reports, press statements etc. on prisoners and prison conditions in Eritrea. These can be found in the reports of Amnesty international, Reporters Without Borders, CJP and other Human Rights organizations, including on the Asmarino.com, Awate and other Eritrean websites. In the mid-2000

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• Prison conditions were dire. Many prisoners were held in underground cells or shipping containers and denied access to daylight. Conditions were overcrowded, damp and unhygienic.

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• Given the general prison conditions at Era’ero – conditions so harsh that they disable able-bodied people – how do individuals like Sayed Aba Arre, a former fighter who uses a wheelchair and was in prison for so long, cope in these kinds of circumstances? Is there anyone who looks after him? Is he provided with some help?

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• r and release all political prisoners, including the “G-11”; (c) To ensure free and fair access to an independent judicial system for those detained to improve prison conditions and to allow regular access to prisoners for relatives, legal advocates, medical care, and other competent and legally authorized authorities and institutions; (d) To put an end to the policy of indefinite military service

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• ulting in death; abuse and torture of national service evaders, some of whom reportedly died from their injuries while in detention; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of national service evaders and their family members; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; and infringement on priva

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• by security forces; torture and beating of prisoners, sometimes resulting in death; abuse and torture of national service evaders; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of national service evaders and their family members; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; and infringement on pr

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• ulting in death; abuse and torture of national service evaders, some of whom reportedly died of their injuries while in detention; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of national service evaders and their family members; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; and infringement on pr

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• shment, Reporters Without Borders wrote: “We urge you to request access to the imprisoned journalists in order to enquire about their state of health and about prison conditions in Eritrea (...) We also ask you and your fellow rapporteurs to put enough pressure on the government to ensure that they are tried or released.”

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• they are not provided with appropriate medical facilities. Right to Visit Only a few personnel have been allowed to visit the detention centre and observe the prison conditions, otherwise, there is a strict restriction against allowing access to any outsider.

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• f any offence. The ELF-RC is particularly concerned about the condition of Mr. Akito. Given his age (he is almost ninety) the state of his heath and EPLF cruel prison conditions, his very life hangs in the balance. Among the persons who have been detained with Mr. Akito are Mr. Osman Buluh, mayor of the seaport of Assab, Mr. Ali

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• in Room-1, their fates still undecided. Twenty-one others who were blood tested and found to be ill with hepatitis and those who have skin rashes due to harsh prison conditions are all locked up in Room-6, without treatment. About 50 Eritrean female and 94 male detainees in Zawya and Zeleten prisons respectively are going through the same ordeal at the moment. All of these souls were simply c

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• m in underground cells. One of them, co-founder of the weekly Setit, Fessehaye Yohannes, known as “Joshua”, died on 11 January 2007 as a result of atrocious prison conditions in the remote Eiraeiro jail in the north-east of the country, where the most high profile prisoners are held. He was one of the country’s leading intellectuals, as well as poet, dramatist and director of a theatre company.

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• times resulting in death; arrest and torture of national service evaders, some of whom reportedly died of abuses while in detention; harsh and life threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of family members of national service evaders; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; infringement on privacy rights;

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• In the reports of Yonas Haile Mehari and Petros Aforki Mulugeta it is noteworthy that they were not tortured during their interrogations, even though the prison conditions were extremely harsh. Yonas Haile Mehari reports about the interrogation sessions in the Fifth Police District building in Asmara: “During the interrogations, they constantly tried to force us to incriminate others: ‘How did you

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• ear Asmara in early 2018. Both had been arrested and imprisoned in the summer of 2008 for their religious beliefs and suffered through nearly a decade of harsh prison conditions.

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• esulting in death; abuse and torture of national service evaders, some of whom reportedly died of their injuries while in detention; harsh and life threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of national service evaders and their family members; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; and infringement on priva

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• owed to be heard inside the country. Today, it is forbidden in Eritrea for any group of more than seven people to assemble without approval by the government Prison conditions, torture and extrajudicial killings Thousands of Eritreans are languishing in ‘secret’ detention camps throughout the country; government critics, veteran liberation fighters, civil servants, peasants, students, journalis

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• Isaias Afwerki.” This regime, said the executive summary of the report, practices abuses which ” included, but were not limited to, harsh and life-threatening prison conditions that included torture and incommunicado detention, which sometimes resulted in death; forced labor of indefinite duration through the mandatory national service program; and the severe restriction of civil liberties includ

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• nished first in a police station in Asmara before being sent to Dahlak prison—a facility on an island in the Red Sea exclusively for political prisoners (see Prison Conditions below). I was questioned in police station 6 in Asmara. There are different types of interrogation: physical and psychological. The first step is asking questions if I had a hand in the G-15. Then they change methods,

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• aptive in recent years. Fifteen of these prisoners are known to have died, nine are suffering from serious medical problems and the others are enduring brutal prison conditions. One of them is the journalist Dawit Isaak, a Swedish citizen, who was first detained in 2001. He was briefly released in 2005, only to be rearrested again within days. In all of his eight and a half years of detention, he

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• Prison conditions remained Spartan. The Government permitted three visits per week by family members. There were no confirmed reports that any prisoners died due to lack of adequate medical care. Women and men were held in separate facilities. There were no juvenile detention centers or correction facilities, and juvenile offenders often were incarcerated with adults. Pretrial detainees generally

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• shment, Reporters Without Borders wrote: “We urge you to request access to the imprisoned journalists in order to enquire about their state of health and about prison conditions in Eritrea (...) We also ask you and your fellow rapporteurs to put enough pressure on the government to ensure that they are tried or released.”

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• forced disappearance. An army general remained held after 14 years, and three religious prisoners were still held after 12 years. Many detainees were tortured. Prison conditions, including being held in underground cells or metal shipping containers, amounted to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Virtually no medical treatment was provided.

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• “Since then, many thousands of mostly evangelical Christians have suffered severely at the hands of a regime known for its human rights abuses, appalling prison conditions and widespread use of torture,” writes Elizabeth Kendal of the Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin. “Even teenagers are not spared and must complete military service in military training camps before they can graduate from school.

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• t they ever heard of him,” said Joel Simon, CPJ Executive Director. While some reports allege that Yohannes died on January 11 after a long illness in unknown prison conditions, a separate report alleges that the journalist died nearly four years ago in a prison in Embatkala, 21 miles (35 km) northeast of Asmara. Yohannes was allegedly found dead in his cell on December 13, 2002, exiled oppositio

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• Unlawful killings by security forces continued, as did torture, harsh prison conditions, and incommunicado detention, which sometimes resulted in death. The government continued to force persons to participate in its national service program, often for periods of indefinite duration. The government also severely restricted civil liberties, including freedom of speech, press, assembly, association,

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• ly because even though government defines them as training camps or centre, actually they fall within the universal definition of prisons (even under the worst prison conditions).

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• s by security forces; torture and beating of prisoners, sometimes resulting in death; abuse and torture of national service evaders; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of national service evaders and their family members; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; and infringement of priva

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• kept in the prison Karcholli you see on my profile picture. Various times I have heard that he has been suffering from various illnesses as the consequences of prison conditions. Where are the faithful; brothers and sisters in Christ of Dr. Tekleab Mengisteab? Prayer without deeds has no meanings.

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• ill-treatment, and at severe risk to their physical integrity or even their lives. Medical treatment for torture injuries or illnesses caused or exacerbated by prison conditions is not provided in any of these places of detention beyond the most minimal medication dispensed by medical assistants. Referrals to hospital are difficult to obtain, long-delayed and rarely result in satisfactory treatmen

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• Prison conditions remained Spartan. The Government generally permitted three visits per week by family members. There were no confirmed reports that any prisoners died due to lack of adequate medical care. Women and men were held in separate facilities. There were no juvenile detention centers or correction facilities, and juvenile offenders often were incarcerated with adults. Pretrial detainees

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• ting in death; abuse and torture of national service evaders, some of whom reportedly died from their injuries while in detention; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of national service evaders and their family members; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; and infringement on pr

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• try where, according to the World Bank, the annual per capita income is around $220; there were reports in 2006 that the amount to be forfeited had doubled. Prison Conditions, Torture, and Ill-Treatment Ongoing political and religious persecution and the clampdown connected to evasion of national service have contributed to thousands of people being detained. Most of those arrested are held in

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• be released immediately. 'Just sign the document, and you're free.' And yet, our brothers and sisters refuse to sign that document and remain in these terrible prison conditions."

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• ulting in death; abuse and torture of national service evaders, some of whom reportedly died of their injuries while in detention; harsh and life threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest and detention, including of national service evaders and their family members; executive interference in the judiciary and the use of a special court system to limit due process; and infringement on pr

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• Prison conditions for political prisoners are said to be "extremely harsh", with inmates often in shipping containers. Cells are said to be overcrowded damp and dirty, and many prisoners are said to have died in custody as a result of torture or lack of medical treatment. Amnesty says no information is provided to the families of political prisoners about their health or whereabouts.

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• 15 June from Geneva and it took them just over a month to walk 1200 km to get to Rome. The reason for the walk was to highlight the human rights situation and prison conditions in Eritrea. They have been collecting supporting signatures on their walk. There is also an on-line petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/FreeErit/ . They will be presenting the petition to Pope Benedict's Office as so

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• The believers later testified that despite the difficulties they faced in the harsh prison conditions, they were never placed in a situation where they were forced to deny their faith. Some of the women were apparently enticed with release in exchange for sexual favors. None gave in, but remained strong in the faith, Open Doors USA reported.

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• cell in 2003, whereas, according to the information Reporters Without Borders obtained from other sources, he died on 11 January 2007 as a result of appalling prison conditions.

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• ear Asmara in early 2018. Both had been arrested and imprisoned in the summer of 2008 for their religious beliefs and suffered through nearly a decade of harsh prison conditions.

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• service. They were imprisoned in September 1994 and are in the notorious Sawa Prison Camp. Eyewitnesses and former inmates of the Sawa Camp describe the harsh prison conditions as those most often associated with a concentration camp. The confinement of these three men is now four times the maximum sentence outlined by Eritrean law for refusing to perform military service. The release of these me

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• Prison conditions for the general prison population were poor. There were reports that prisoners were held in shipping containers with little or no ventilation in extreme temperatures. At Aderser, near Sawa, there were reports that prisoners were held in underground cells.

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