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By CPJ:Committe to Protect Journalists -
Oct 04, 2006
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At least 13 journalists are behind bars in Eritrea, with two more enduring prolonged forced labor euphemistically called "national service." These grim statistics have made Eritrea one of the world's five biggest jailers of journalists for five consecutive years, according to CPJ research. The imprisoned journalists have not been formally charged. Eritrean authorities have refused to discuss their whereabouts, the conditions of their imprisonment, or the precise nature of the allegations against them. |
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By Amnesty International -
Sep 18, 2006
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Amnesty International considers they are prisoners of conscience imprisoned on account of their opinions and criticism of the government. It is renewing its ongoing appeals for their unconditional release, as well as the release of all other prisoners of conscience, including those imprisoned on account of their religious beliefs. |
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By US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor -
Sep 17, 2006
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The Government severely restricts freedom of religion for groups that it has not registered, and infringes upon the independence of some registered groups. The constitution, written in 1997, provides for religious freedom; however, the constitution has not been implemented. Following a 2002 government decree that religious groups must register, the Government closed all religious facilities not belonging to the country's four principal religious institutions |
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By Ambassador John V. Hanford III -
Sep 17, 2006
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... as Eritrea and China, Uzbekistan also provides an example of how governments often choose to use repressive registration laws as a means of restricting non-approved religions or simply to outlaw certain faiths entirely.... |
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