厄立特里亚：联合国专家要求结束数十年任意拘留与强迫失踪
联合国专家10月30日发表声明，对东非国家厄立特里亚自1991年以来有罪不罚地持续发生任意拘留和强迫失踪表示严重关切。
专家们说，35多年来，厄立特里亚人面临任意逮捕和拘留，往往不经指控或审判，被剥夺与家人联系、获得律师帮助和司法保护的机会；在数百起案件中，被剥夺自由者的命运和下落至今不明，给其家人和社区带来持续的痛苦。
声明点名独立运动老兵、前高级官员比特韦德·阿布拉哈（Bitweded Abraha）：他1991年10月6日首次被捕，据报35年后仍在被任意拘留；联合国任意拘留问题工作组2018年已裁定其拘留属任意拘留，要求立即释放并给予赔偿。自2001年9月起，包括记者塞尤姆·策哈耶（Seyoum Tsehaye）和达维特·伊萨克（Dawit Isaak）在内的多名前高级官员（人称「G-15」）被拘留，25多年后命运下落仍不明。
声明还说，许多人因信仰被拘留：七名基督教领袖已被单独囚禁、不经指控关押超过20年。专家们表示，广泛或系统性地长期任意拘留、强迫失踪和宗教迫害可能构成危害人类罪，并呼吁厄立特里亚政府立即无条件释放所有被任意拘留者、公布失踪者下落。
Eritrea: UN Experts Call for End to Decades of Arbitrary Detention and Enforced Disappearances
UN experts expressed grave concern on October 30 about ongoing patterns of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances in the East African country of Eritrea, which they said have occurred with impunity since 1991.
For over 35 years, the experts said, Eritreans have faced arbitrary arrests and detentions, often without charges or trial, denied access to family, legal counsel and judicial protection; in hundreds of cases the fate and whereabouts of those detained remain unknown.
The experts highlighted the case of Bitweded Abraha, a veteran of Eritrea's independence movement and former senior official first arrested on October 6, 1991, and reportedly still arbitrarily detained 35 years later; the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled in 2018 that his detention was arbitrary. Since September 2001, former senior officials known as the G-15 and journalists including Seyoum Tsehaye and Dawit Isaak have been detained, their fate unknown more than 25 years later.
Many others have been detained for their faith, including seven Christian leaders held incommunicado without charge for more than two decades. The experts said the widespread or systematic use of prolonged arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and religious persecution may constitute crimes against humanity, and called on Eritrea to free all arbitrarily detained people promptly and unconditionally and disclose the fate of the disappeared.
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