Eritrea
Date: 25.12.20
Source: Haaretz, Gidi Weitz and Hilo Glazer
During the course of 2017, a series of explosive letters landed in the Defense Ministry. They were sent by Amnon Zichroni, one of Israel’s top lawyers, who has since died. The texts were polite, matter-of-fact. |
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Date: 25.7.19
Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron
The Supreme Court denied on Wednesday an appeal filed by of a group of human rights activists demanding that the Foreign Ministry release classified documents concerning the human rights situation in Eritrea and Israel’s relations with the African country. |
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Date: 17.7.19
Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron
Israel will reexamine all requests from Eritrean asylum seekers, including 3,000 that were previously turned down, a decision by a special committee said on Tuesday, as it announced new assessment criteria. |
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Date: 2.7.19
Source: Amnesty International
This briefing highlights the routine and widespread use of harassment and threats by the Eritrean government and its supporters against Eritrean human rights defenders. |
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Date: 27.6.19
Source: Bloomberg, Samuel Gebre
Human-rights activists who risked their lives and fled a brutal regime in Eritrea are still not safe to criticize the government from outside the country, according to Amnesty International. |
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Date: 16.3.19
Source: Lisa Schlein, VOA News
GENEVA - U.N. experts say Eritrea’s human rights record has not changed for the better since the government signed a peace agreement with Ethiopia last year, formally ending a two decades-long border conflict. The U.N. |
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Date: 1.12.18
Source: Haaretz, Lee Yaron
The UN Refugee Agency’s new representative in Israel says he’s greatly concerned about asylum seekers’ uncertain status in the country – an intolerable situation for anyone who believes in humanism and human dignity, as he put it. |
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Date: 1.11.18
Source: ASSAF; The Refugee Rights Forum
Update ahead of the Hearing in the Interior Committee of the Knesset on “Examining the Non-Removal Policy to Eritrea Considering International Developments”, Monday, October 15, 2018. |
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Date: 22.10.18
Source: Jerusalem Post, Teklit Michael
The so-called Eritrean government signed a peace deal in July with the Ethiopian government. For the Eritrean people, nothing has come from this deal other than an intangible concept of peace. After the deal, Eritreans were ecstatic. |
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Date: 4.10.18
Source: Vice News, Sarah Burke and Yousra Elbagir
KAMPALA, Uganda — Every few months for 10 years, Ben would go to an immigration office in Tel Aviv to renew his temporary visa, and every time he’d be greeted with the same response. |
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