• Letter to Kenyan Director of Political Affairs Thomas Amolo
    Letter to Mr. Amolo requesting further details regarding issues of concern related to the Somalia crisis, particularly the arbitrary detention, deportation, and apparent enforced disappearance of dozens of individuals who fled Somalia in December 2006 and January 2007.
    Mar 22, 2007
  • Eritrea: Refugees Involuntarily Repatriated from Libya
    Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned about the treatment of more than one hundred Eritrean citizens forcibly repatriated from Libya during the last two weeks of July.
    Aug 2, 2004
  • Eritrean Refugees in Danger of Deportation from Libya
    Human Rights Watch has learned that your government may be in the process of forcibly returning Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers in Libya to Eritrea, where they face unlawful detention and probable torture. We have received reports that Eritreans are currently being held in Kufra, Misurath, and Tripoli in anticipation of mass deportation to Eritrea.
    Jul 21, 2004
  • Letter to President George W. Bush
    Dear Mr. President, In recent weeks, the Eritrean government has lobbied the United States to use Eritrea's Red Sea ports as military bases in the war against terrorism. Secretary Rumsfeld left open the possibility during his trip to Asmara in December. Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned about the impact a deepening U.S. military relationship with Eritrea might have on efforts to end the Eritrean government's gross abuses of civil and political rights - abuses which not only harm the Eritrean people but undermine the struggle against terrorism.
    Dec 19, 2002