{"id":3965,"date":"2015-08-30T05:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T05:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2015-08-30T05:46:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T05:46:43","slug":"eritrean-authorities-have-arrested-50-locally-employed-u-s-embassy-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/08\/30\/eritrean-authorities-have-arrested-50-locally-employed-u-s-embassy-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrean Authorities Have Arrested 50 Locally Employed U.S. Embassy Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"useful-top\">\n<div class=\"column useful\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"links more-on-this\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"headlines\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"document\">\n<p class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00038327.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00251170:2c304070f82a00437810aaa109659800:arc614x376:w285:us1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"figcaption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<p>The former US ambassador to Eritrea, Ambassador Ronald McMullen disclosed for the first time last week that between 2001 and 2010 the Eritrean authorities arrested dozens of Eritrean employees of the US embassy in Asmara.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador McMullen, US Ambassador to Eritrea 2007-2010, said: &#8220;Forty eight of our Eritrean employees have been arrested from 2001 to 2010; some have been arrested for many years; others were arrested for several weeks or months and kept in horrible conditions.&#8221; The US has previously publicized the case of two of its employees who have now been held for over a dozen years without charge or trial but this the first time it has mentioned that so many others have been detained.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aans-body-mid\"><\/div>\n<p>Ambassador McMullen described the country as &#8220;very, very, repressed&#8221;; the government of President Isaias as &#8220;highly centralized and very authoritarian&#8221;; and it attempted &#8220;to control all aspects of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said diplomats were prevented from having access to the local population and described the relationship between the embassy and the Eritrean Government as one of &#8220;relatively good access, but bad relations&#8221;, noting that the Government had closed the US defense attach\u00e9&#8217;s office, ordered out the Peace Corps and US Aid as well as seizing diplomatic pouches.<\/p>\n<div id=\"aans-body-end\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"page-end-last\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"page-end-slidebox\" class=\"slidebox open\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"responsive-aans-view-end-container\" class=\"outer-ad-container responsive-aans-view-end-container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former US ambassador to Eritrea, Ambassador Ronald McMullen disclosed for the first time last week that between 2001 and 2010 the Eritrean authorities arrested dozens of Eritrean employees of the US embassy in Asmara. 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