{"id":11921,"date":"2020-10-28T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=11921"},"modified":"2020-10-29T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T00:21:49","slug":"embassy-office-eritrea-forces-donations-from-asylum-seekers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2020\/10\/28\/embassy-office-eritrea-forces-donations-from-asylum-seekers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Embassy office Eritrea forces donations from asylum seekers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/images.nrc.nl\/jDZH6ZVY_QsScTymEchQzA8QANo=\/1280x\/filters:no_upscale()\/s3\/static.nrc.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/web-2310binazc.jpg?w=840&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Money would have been collected from Eritreans who just fled the regime and still live in an asylum seekers' center.\" width=\"375\" height=\"249\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fundraising&nbsp;campaign In April, the embassy started a fundraising campaign with \u201ca minimum contribution of 100 euros\u201d for the \u201cfight against corona\u201d.&nbsp;People who paid would have been put under pressure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nMoney would have been collected from Eritreans who just fled the regime and still live in an asylum seekers\u2019 center.Photo Olaf Kraak \/ ANP&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diplomats from the Eritrean embassy office in the Netherlands are involved in raising money from members of the Eritrean community in the Netherlands, including asylum seekers.&nbsp;This is shown by research by the radio program&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpro.nl\/argos\/lees\/nieuws\/2020\/eritrees-regime-haalt-opnieuw-geld-op-bij-asielzoekers-in-nederland.html\"><em>Argos<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp;People who paid would have been pressured to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, the office \u2013 Eritrea does not have a full-fledged embassy in the Netherlands \u2013 started a fundraising campaign with \u201ca minimum contribution of 100 euros\u201d for the \u201cfight against corona\u201d.&nbsp;During the lockdown, embassy personnel passed the houses of Eritreans in the Netherlands.&nbsp;Consul Solomon Mehari was also involved in the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was implicitly stated that failure to pay would have major consequences.&nbsp;According to Argos, there are known cases in which Eritreans are refused consular services or family members in Eritrea have more difficult access to scarce goods such as sugar and oil when their relatives in the Netherlands do not pay.&nbsp;According to a list of payments that Argos saw, at least 155,000 euros was collected from the collections.&nbsp;The list also includes persons who have just fled the Eritrean regime and are still living in an asylum seekers\u2019 center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is going to ask the embassy office for clarification.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrc.nl\/nieuws\/2018\/01\/17\/hoogste-ambassademedewerker-eritrea-moet-nederland-uit-a1588689\">In 2018,<\/a>&nbsp;the highest diplomat of Eritrea Netherlands was expelled for levying a so-called diaspora tax, whereby Eritreans in the Netherlands had to pay 2 percent of their income to the repressive regime in Africa.&nbsp;That too would have happened then under pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">eritreahub.org<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fundraising&nbsp;campaign In April, the embassy started a fundraising campaign with \u201ca minimum contribution of 100 euros\u201d for the \u201cfight against corona\u201d.&nbsp;People who paid would have been put under pressure. 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