Media Watchdog Urges Release of Journalists
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Branding Eritrea “Africa’s biggest prison for the press,” a watchdog group urged the government to free more than a dozen journalists jailed when all private newspapers were shut down Sept. 18, 2001.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said at least 14 journalists had been detained without charge for three years, leaving Eritreans to depend on the state press and a few international radio stations. Eritrea expelled a reporter working for the BBC on Sept. 10, removing the last foreign journalist working for an international news organization.
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