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I frequently encounter Eritreans living safely in the West, with political asylum, who feel they can’t even “like” social-media posts that are critical of the regime back home. Instead they prefer privately writing or calling the individual whose post they wanted to react to. They fear the regime is tapping everyone’s social media account.
The journalists–Basilos Zemo, Bereket Misguina, Ghirmai Abraham, Meles Nguse, Petros Teferi, and Yirgalem Fesseha–were among the Radio Bana staff arrested in a February 2009 raid on the station.
At least 17 journalists remain imprisoned in Eritrea.
Image: REUTERS/Nir Elias & REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Photo: Malin Fezehai for TIME
‘A Kind of Purgatory’: African Refugees in Israel
It is estimated that 60,000 African asylum-seekers reside in the State of Israel, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea. For these men, women and children, the journey to the country is as perilous as it is difficult.
Read the full report on Journalists in Exile here.