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 ...

A Swedish prosecutor has closed an investigation into a complaint accusing the Eritrean authorities of crimes against humanity, torture and abduction in the case of Dawit Isaak. Reporters Without ...

RSF hopes the complaint leads to a serious criminal investigation that results in the eight officials being prosecuted and convicted for the torture, abduction and enforced disappearance of Isaak.

Judith Abitan is the executive director of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, an international human rights advocate, and an MC/MPA candidate at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School ...

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 ...

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 not to open an ...

Dawit Isaak, an imprisoned Eritrean-Swedish journalist, has been chosen to receive the 2017 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. Mr. Isaak was arrested in a crackdown on the media that ...

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, a Swedish and Eritrean citizen, is a journalist and one of the founders of Setit, Eritrea's first independent newspaper. Following Setit's publication of an open letter calling for the ...