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The government of President Isaias Afewerki has effectively banned the independent press. Journalists languish in detention, as do officials who question Isaias’s leadership; many have died in jail. No civil society organizations are allowed to exist. Arbitrary arrest of citizens is rampant, and torture in detention is common.  Leading religious institutions – Orthodox Christian and Muslim – are run by government-appointees; adherents of other religions are jailed until they renounce their faiths.  Nearly all men and many women over 18 are conscripted into indefinite “national service,” which exploits them as forced labor at survival wages. </p></div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-region-separator"></div><div class="panel-pane pane-views-panes pane-taxonomy-landing-page-panel-pane-1 pane-taxonomy-feature-page"> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="view view-taxonomy-landing-page view-id-taxonomy_landing_page view-display-id-panel_pane_1 view-taxonomy-feature-page view-dom-id-4"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="item-list"> <ul> <li class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/15/eritrea-mining-investors-risk-use-forced-labor"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20130122232453im_/http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/crop-300x200/media/images/photographs/2013_eritrea_bishamap_0.jpg" class="imagecache imagecache-crop-300x200 imagecache-default imagecache-crop-300x200_default"/></a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-image-caption-value"> <div class="field-content">Map of Eritrea with location of Bisha Mine.</div> </div> <div class="views-field-field-copyright-value"> <span class="field-content">© 2013 Human Rights Watch</span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/15/eritrea-mining-investors-risk-use-forced-labor">Eritrea: Mining Investors Risk Use of Forced Labor</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">International mining firms rushing to invest in Eritrea’s burgeoning minerals sector risk involvement in serious abuses unless they take strong preventive measures. 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Eritrea should also open its jails to international monitors.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/12/09/egypt-end-traffickers-abuse-migrants">Egypt: End Traffickers’ Abuse of Migrants</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Dec 9, 2010</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Egyptian authorities should rescue migrants held for ransom and abused by human traffickers in the Sinai desert. The government has neither prosecuted the traffickers nor closed down their detention sites.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/07/21/horn-africa-ray-hope">From the Horn of Africa, a Ray of Hope</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jul 21, 2010</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Ask people what they know about Somalia and most will probably start talking about pirates, terrorists and Black Hawk Down. Not many would think to mention democracy or free elections as well, but they should. Last month, Somaliland--an impoverished sliver of territory that has maintained de facto independence from Somalia since 1991--held elections that put the democratic pretenses of its neighbors in the Horn of Africa to shame.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/07/08/italy-offer-shelter-eritreans-detained-abused-libya">Italy: Offer to Shelter Eritreans Detained, Abused by Libya</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jul 8, 2010</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The Italian government should immediately offer to take into Italy at least 11 Eritreans it had previously forced back to Libya and who are now detained there and threatened with deportation back to Eritrea.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/news/2010/07/02/libya-do-not-deport-eritrean">Libya: Do Not Deport Eritreans</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jul 2, 2010</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Libyan authorities should immediately stop apparent efforts to deport a group of 245 Eritreans, some of whom have been severely beaten by guards.</div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"> <a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/news-all/99">more documents on this topic »</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div class="limiter clear-block"> <div class="clear-block"><a href="#header" class="back-to-top">Back to top</a></div> <div class="nav"> <a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/rss" class="rss-link">RSS</a> <div class="pipe-links"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/home">Home</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/our-work">Our Work</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/news">News</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/publications">Publications</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/multimedia">Multimedia</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/about">About Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/contact-us">Contact Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130122232453/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130122232453/https://secure.hrw.org/site/c.nlIWIgN2JwE/b.8370149/k.2592/Donate__Help_Defend_Human_Rights/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp?msource=n">Donate</a></div> </div> <div class="footer-blocks clear-block"> <div id="block-views-hrw_footer-block_1" class="clear-block block block-views"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="view view-hrw-footer view-id-hrw_footer view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-9"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content">Human Rights Watch<br/> 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor<br/> New York, NY 10118-3299<br/> USA<br/> Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700<br/> <br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us">Contact Us - Global Offices</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130122232453/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/en/about/jobs">Employment</a></strong></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-tic-5" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="col-left clear-block"><strong class="vocab-header"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/regions">Browse by Region</a></strong><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first first"><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/africa">Africa</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/americas">Americas</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/asia">Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia">Europe/Central Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130122232453/http://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa" class="active">Middle East/N. 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