{"id":1647,"date":"2015-05-03T06:32:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T06:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2015-05-03T06:32:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T06:32:41","slug":"eu-plans-to-provide-eritreas-oppressive-regime-with-new-funding-by-rsf-april-28-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/03\/eu-plans-to-provide-eritreas-oppressive-regime-with-new-funding-by-rsf-april-28-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"EU plans to provide Eritrea\u2019s oppressive regime with new funding By RSF April 28, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAn Italian delegation that visited Eritrea from 24 to 26 March met with President Issayas Afeworki, his political adviser Yemane Ghebreaben, and several ministers. Ghebreaben assured the delegation that Eritrea would carry out democratic reforms \u201cin its own way\u201d during the next three to five years.<\/span>The EDF is the main instrument for EU development assistance. Under the 11th EDF, the EU\u2019s Eritrean \u201cpartner\u201d is to get 312 million euros in aid between now and 2020 \u2013 three times what it was awarded in 2009 for the following five years \u2013 although it continues to flout freedom of expression and information, and human rights in general.<\/p>\n

Such promises have been made in the past without any significant improvements ever being seen. The Eritrean authorities continue to be inflexible as regards the detention of political prisoners, including many journalists, claiming that high treason and national sovereignty issues are involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is astounding that the European Union provides Issayas Afeworki\u2019s regime with so much aid without seeking anything in return in the areas of human rights and freedom of expression, although Eritrea\u2019s constitution guarantees the right to free speech,\u201d said Cl\u00e9a Kahn-Sriber, the head of the Reporters Without Borders Africa desk.\u201cThis country, which has never had democratic elections, is subject to a single man\u2019s will. How can the European Union, which defends the rule of law and democratic values, support such a regime? While it is important to maintain a dialogue, there is a limit to how far you can go in accommodating a dictatorship that does not keep its promises”.<\/p>\n

\u201cWouldn\u2019t it be in the EU\u2019s own interest, as the recent deaths of hundreds migrants in the Mediterranean have reminded us, to encourage the development of a government that respects human rights and allows young Eritreans to see an alternative to a future of forced conscription of indeterminate duration?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kahn-Sriber added: \u201cWe call on the European Union to condition its funding on Eritrean government guarantees for more respect for human rights, including the release of imprisoned journalists who are political prisoners and authorization for media pluralism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reporters Without Borders condemned the five-year EDF funding that the <\/a>European Union awarded Eritrea in 2009<\/a> although the situation of political prisoners had worsened considerably and more journalists had been arrested.<\/a><\/p>\n

Contrary to its repeated promises to improve respect for human rights, the Eritrean regime has become steadily more oppressive and, although a small country, detains more journalists than any other African nation.<\/a><\/p>\n

Since closing down all privately-owned media outlets in 2001, the government has exercised complete control over news and information, repeatedly cracking down on independent journalism and trying to jam independent news radio broadcasts from outside the country.<\/a><\/p>\n

The least critical opinion can lead to permanent incarceration without trial in unbearable conditions in one of the country prison camps. Of the 11 journalists arrested in 2001, at least seven have died or taken their own lives in detention.<\/a><\/p>\n

Eritrea is ranked last in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom index for the eighth year running.<\/a><\/p>\n

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