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STOCKHOLM: Sweden is calling on Eritrea to release a Swedish-Eritrean reporter who have spent 10 years in jail there.
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Dawit Isaak should be freed immediately, saying his situation “is a tragedy.”
Last week, the European Parliament unanimously condemned his detention and called for a fair trial by an independent court. Isaak was imprisoned after demanding press freedom.
Isaak fled to Sweden in 1987 as a war refugee but returned to Eritrea in the 1990s to work for an independent newspaper. He was arrested and imprisoned without trial on Sept. 18, 2001, among several journalists.
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Dawit Isaak should be freed immediately, saying his situation “is a tragedy.”
Last week, the European Parliament unanimously condemned his detention and called for a fair trial by an independent court. Isaak was imprisoned after demanding press freedom.
Isaak fled to Sweden in 1987 as a war refugee but returned to Eritrea in the 1990s to work for an independent newspaper. He was arrested and imprisoned without trial on Sept. 18, 2001, among several journalists.
