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Enforced disappearances Eritrea
| Numbers and Context |
|---|
| UNWGEID Cases |
| 54 cases reported,all of them outstanding. |
| NGOs Numbers |
| No conclusive figures. |
| Context |
| Victims of the cases reported to the UNWGEID concerned Ethiopian nationals arrested by the Eritrean police.
The 2007 Amnesty International report on Eritrea reveals that 'several thousand prisoners of conscience were detained incommunicado without charge or trial. Some former government leaders were held in a secret place of detention. The whereabouts of many political or religious prisoners, including journalists, were not known. Many were in effect victims of enforced disappearance'. Concretely 11 former government ministers and former Eritrean People's Liberation Front leaders were kept in secret detention following the September 2001 crackdown on dissent, and the government did not reply to appeals to clarity their whereabouts. |