Kakwenza RUKIRABASHAIJA
Authorities continued to prosecute exiled novelist, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija for ‘offensive communications’ under Section 25 of the Computer Misuse Act although the section was declared…
Innocent BAHATI
The year ended with poet Innocent Bahati still missing since his disappearance on 7 February 2021 after he reportedly went for a dinner meeting with…
Étienne Fakaba SISSOKO
Author, academic and political activist Étienne Fakaba Sissoko was serving a one-year prison term in Kéniéroba Central Prison at the end of the year. Arrested on…
Collective case of writers and journalists detained without trial for 23 years.
September 2024 marked 23 years of the incommunicado detention without trial of a group of Eritrean journalists and writers, including Dawit ISAAK; Amanuel ASRAT; Said Idris ‘ABU ARE’;…