Ciham Ali turns 23 today, the eighth year in a row she will be spending her birthday behind bars in an Eritrea prison. She has been held there incommunicado since the age of 15.
For several years now, Eritrean diaspora groups, notably One Day Seyoum, have for Ciham and other political detainees' release. This year, with the threat of COVID-19 hanging over the scores of detainees held in prisons, the call seems even more poignant.
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