Eritrea: Further information on Incommunicado detention / Prisoners of Conscience / Ill-treatment

Index Number: AFR 64/010/2003
Date Published: 27 November 2003
Categories: Africa, Eritrea

Fifty-one young male and female members of minority Christian churches who had been held in metal shipping containers at Sawa military camp in western Eritrea have reportedly been released. They were arrested in mid-August and held incommunicado in harsh conditions, which amounted to torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.