• Sudan: End Mass Summary Deportations of Eritreans
    Oct 25, 2011
    Press release
    The Sudanese authorities are increasingly deporting Eritreans to their country without allowing them to claim asylum, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 17, 2011, Sudan handed over 300 Eritreans to the Eritrean military without screening them for refugee status, drawing public condemnation from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
  • Eritrea: Free Political Prisoners 10 Years On
    Sep 22, 2011
    Press release
    Ten years after President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea ordered the detention of 21 senior government members and journalists who criticized him, his government should release the detainees or reveal their fate, a Human Rights Watch briefing paper says. Eritrea should also open its jails to international monitors.
  • Egypt: End Traffickers’ Abuse of Migrants
    Dec 9, 2010
    Press release
    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.
  • Italy: Offer to Shelter Eritreans Detained, Abused by Libya
    Jul 9, 2010
    Press release
    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.
  • Libya: Do Not Deport Eritreans
    Jul 2, 2010
    Press release
    Libyan authorities should immediately stop apparent efforts to deport a group of 245 Eritreans, some of whom have been severely beaten by guards.
  • Libya: Don’t Send Eritreans Back to Risk of Torture
    Jan 15, 2010
    Press release
    Libyan authorities are giving Eritrean officials access to Eritrean migrants, including many asylum seekers who are being detained in Libya, violating their right to seek asylum.
  • Eritrea: Repression Creating Human Rights Crisis
    Apr 16, 2009
    Press release
    Eritrea's extensive detention and torture of its citizens and its policy of prolonged military conscription are creating a human rights crisis and prompting increasing numbers of Eritreans to flee the country.
  • Egypt: Stop Deporting Eritrean Asylum Seekers
    Jan 8, 2009
    Press release
    Egypt should immediately halt deportations of Eritrean asylum seekers to their home country, where they face detention and the risk of torture, Human Rights Watch said today.
  • Egypt: Don’t Return Eritrean Asylum Seekers at Risk
    Dec 19, 2008
    Press release
    Egypt should under no circumstances deport Eritrean asylum seekers now in detention without first allowing the UN refugee agency access to assess their refugee claims.
  • Ethiopia: Crackdown in East Punishes Civilians
    Jul 3, 2007
    Press release
    The Ethiopian military has forcibly displaced thousands of civilians in the country’s eastern Somali region in recent weeks while escalating its campaign against a separatist insurgency movement, Human Rights Watch said today. Both the government and rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) must protect civilians and ensure their access to humanitarian relief.