Abitan is the Executive Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, an international human rights advocate, and acted as Chief of Staff to Irwin Cotler when he was a Member of Parliament ...

Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak who has been imprisoned in Eritrea since 2001. Photo: Kalle Ahlsén/Scanpix/TT A Swedish-Eritrean journalist held incommunicado without charge in Eritrea for ...

A journalist detained in Eritrean prison without trial for 23 years has won a Swedish human rights prize for his commitment to freedom of expression. Dawit Isaak, who holds dual Eritrean-Swedish ...

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 Prize on her father's ...

The case of journalist Dawit Isaac, who has been imprisoned in Eritrea without trial for over 11 years, has been referred to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. (RSF/IFEX) – On 27 ...

The eldest daughter of the jailed Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, Bethlehem Isaak, who had been imprisoned in Eritrea without trial for 18 years, on Monday said her father was still alive.

Dawit Isaak – co-owner of the weekly newspaper Setit – has spent half of his time in detention in solitary confinement, has been tortured and is in very poor physical and mental health. This statement ...