Eritrea: A Nation Silenced - 30 Years on
Eritrea’s Press Proclamation No. 90/1996 was enacted on June 10, 1996, to provide a legal and regulatory framework for the country's media. Despite initially paving the way for a brief period of independent journalism, the📷
#PFDJ regime permanently banned all private media outlets and imprisoned prominent journalists in 2001, making the proclamation largely inactive in practice.
In an extended, in-depth interview I spoke with former detainee writer Tsegay Mehari who shares a direct and unprecedented testimony of his experiences whilst held incommunicado for several years in
#Eritrea.