After staging a hunger strike in protest, 10 imprisoned journalists were transferred to other detention centres in April 2002, but it is not known where. According to Eritreans who have gone into exile after being imprisoned, they are bring held in metal containers inside military camps. There has been no word of their fate for the past four years.
The ten journalists held since September 2001 are Yusuf Mohamed Ali, the editor of Tsigenay; Mattewos Habteab, the editor of Meqaleh, and his deputy, Dawit Habtemichael; Medhanie Haile, the deputy editor of Keste Debena, and Temesgen Gebreyesus, a member of Keste Debena’s board; Emanuel Asrat, the editor of de Zemen; Dawit Isaac, who holds dual Eritrean and Swedish citizenship; poet and playwright Fessehaye Yohannes of Setit; Said Abdulkader, the editor of Admas; and freelance photographer Seyoum Tsehaye. [mehr über Seyoum]
Three journalists working for the state-owned broadcast media were arrested in January and February 2002. They are Hamid Mohamed Said and Saidia Ahmed of Eri-TV and Saleh Al Jezaeeri of the Voice of the Broad Masses radio station.
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