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Eritrea: Daughter of Jailed Eritrean Journalist Continues to Fight for His Release
VOA, 21 November 2024
Journalist Betlehem Isaak, the daughter of journalist Dawit Isaak -- a dual Eritrean-Swedish citizen imprisoned without trial in Eritrea since 2001-- accepted the 2024 Edelstam… Read more »
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Africa: World's Longest Arbitrarily Detained Journalist Receives The Edelstam Prize
The Edelstam Foundation, 12 November 2024
The Edelstam Prize 2024 is awarded to Mr. Dawit Isaak for his outstanding contributions and exceptional courage in standing up for freedom of expression, one's beliefs, and in the… Read more »
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Eritrea: RSF Urges Swedish Judicial Authorities to Reverse Dawit Isaak Decision
RSF, 14 April 2021
In an op-ed published in Norway, Sweden and South Africa, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) explains why it has formally asked the Swedish prosecutor's office to reverse its decision… Read more »
Prize-Winning Jailed Eritrean Journo's Daughter Keeps Fighting
Journalist Dawit Isaak, who has been imprisoned without trial in Eritrean prisons for the past 23 years, has won a Swedish human rights prize, the Edelstam Prize for his efforts to promote freedom of expression.
Isaak, who holds dual Eritrean-Swedish citizenship, received the award for "exceptional courage". Bethlehem Isaak, Isaak's daughter, will receive the prize on his behalf at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on 19th November 2024.
Isaak was one of the founders of Setit, Eritrea's first independent newspaper, which published letters calling for democratic reforms in 2001. He was among about two dozen individuals, including senior cabinet ministers, members of parliament, and independent journalists in a government purge. Eritrea's government has not provided any information on his whereabouts or health, and many of the other prisoners are presumed dead.
Eritrea has not held elections since independence, and President Isaias Afwerki has been in power for nearly 31 years.
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After nearly 15 years behind bars without trial or official charge, Eritrea's Foreign Affairs Minister Osman Saleh says that Dawit Isaak will only be sentenced when the government ... Read more »
The Edelstam Prize 2024 is awarded to Mr. Dawit Isaak for his outstanding contributions and exceptional courage in standing up for freedom of expression, one's beliefs, and in the defence of Human Rights. The prize will be awarded during a ceremony at the House of Nobility in Stockholm, Sweden, on 19th November 2024. As Dawit Isaak is a prisoner of conscience and the longest-held detained journalist in the world, he cannot be present. His daughter, Betlehem Isaak, will receive the prize on his behalf.
