{"id":82437,"date":"2021-09-23T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/82437-sweden-urges-eritrea-to-release-journalist-held-for-20-years.html"},"modified":"2021-09-23T07:08:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T05:08:02","slug":"sweden-urges-eritrea-to-release-journalist-held-for-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/82437-sweden-urges-eritrea-to-release-journalist-held-for-20-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Sweden urges Eritrea to release journalist held for 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             Sweden's prime minister on Thursday called on Eritrea to free a Swedish-Eritrean journalist held without charge for two decades, as an NGO petitioned Swedish authorities to investigate human rights abuses in the case.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Dawit Isaak was among a group of around two dozen senior cabinet ministers, members of parliament and independent journalists who were seized in a draconian purge in the east African country in September, 2001.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            \"Today marks 20 years since Dawit Isaak was arrested in Eritrea. That is an incredibly long time,\" Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in a post to social media.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            \"My government and multiple previous governments have worked intensely with Dawit's case. Our work has so far not had the result we wanted, but we will never give up,\" Lofven added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Meanwhile, press rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) renewed a call to Swedish prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity in the case.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            A Swedish law adopted in 2014 enabled the prosecution for such crimes even if committed elsewhere in the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            A similar petition was filed with Swedish authorities in October last year, but prosecutors declined to open a case, arguing there were practical obstacles to the investigation even if there was reason to believe crimes had been committed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            \"RSF requests that the Prosecution Authority take their international responsibility and open a preliminary investigation for crimes against humanity in Dawit Isaak's case,\" the group said in a statement on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Isaak was arrested on September 23, 2001, shortly after the Eritrean newspaper he founded, Setit, published articles demanding political reforms.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            He had fled to Sweden in 1987 during Eritrea's struggle against Ethiopia which eventually led to independence in 1993. He returned in 2001 to help shape the media landscape.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            RSF ranks Eritrea as the world's most repressive country when it comes to press freedom, ahead of North Korea and Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden's prime minister on Thursday called on Eritrea to free a Swedish-Eritrean journalist held without charge for two decades, as an NGO petitioned Swedish authorities to investigate human rights abuses in the case. 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