Swedish prosecutors have said they will not pursue a case against top Eritrean officials over the 20-year imprisonment of Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak.
Sweden's chapter of Reporters Without Borders has filed a complaint accusing Eritrea's regime of human rights abuses over the imprisonment of Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak in 2001.
A United Nations expert on Friday called on Eritrea's government to urgently reveal the fate of Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, and the rest of a group of senior government officials and journalists arrested fifteen years ago.
The Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak is alive, according to Eritrea’s foreign minister, though the claim has been met with skepticism in Sweden.
Sweden and Germany cannot continue to take in the majority of refugees seeking new lives in the EU, a top UN official has said, days after Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that immigration could become a bigger challenge than the Greek debt crisis.
Swedish-Eritreans whose families are held for ransom in "torture camps" in the Sinai learned on Tuesday that Europol has looked at tackling criminal networks who demand in excess of $30,000 to keep their victims alive.
A Swedish-Eritrean woman who was the victim of an attempted extortion of $33,000 in ransom for a kidnapped and tortured man in Egypt has appealed against sentences passed down on two men on Friday.
Two men were convicted by a Stockholm court on Friday of the aggravated attempted extortion of a Swedish-Eritrean woman in return for preventing the torture and eventual murder of a man in Egypt.
Two men charged with blackmailing an Eritrean woman in Sweden faced a Stockholm courtroom on Wednesday, accused of demanding money from the woman to prevent the torture and eventual murder of a man in Egypt.
Police in Sweden have stopped deporting people to Eritrea as the Migration Board (Migrationsverket) reevaluates its policy regarding asylum applicants from the east African country.
Pressure is mounting on Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt to take action against the torture of Eritreans in Egypt and the blackmailing of their relatives in Sweden and other European countries.
Eritreans in Sweden are being forced to cough up tens of thousands of dollars to blackmailers who threaten to torture and kill their family members abroad.
Arson investigations have been launched into three fires that broke out near Stockholm in the early hours of Monday morning in three separate locations, all of which house organizations that sympathize with the regime in Eritrea.
Two men and one woman have been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of blackmail and conspiring to commit murder in a case believed to be connected to the Eritrean regime's systematic oppression of Eritreans living in exile.
Carl Bildt’s silent diplomacy between Sweden and Eritrea is non-existent and nothing is being done to bring home imprisoned Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, claimed Eritrea’s president Isaias Afwerki in an interview on Saturday.
Police fired a warning shot on Saturday night after coming under attack from stone-throwing locals outside a concert organized by a pro-regime Eritrean youth group in a Stockholm suburb.
A pro-Eritrean regime youth group is hosting a large international conference somewhere in Sweden over Easter weekend in what outraged Swedes have billed as "brainwashing" for a "terror regime".
The majority of the Riksdag is against Eritrea collecting taxes from citizens resident in Sweden and MPs from the commitee on justice say that if current Swedish law is not enough to stop it, rules need to be tightened.
Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, who has been imprisoned in Eritrea since 2001, has been moved from prison and may be dead, according to Swedish journalist Lars Adaktusson.
While the frustration expressed recently by the children of imprisoned Swedish-Eritrian journalist Dawit Isaak is understandable, it's important to consider how Isaak would handle a case such as his, argues historian <b>Susanne Berger</b>.
