We need your help, she says in an interview with AFP during the annual top meeting for human rights and democracy in Geneva.
Swedish-Eritrean Dawit Isaak returned from Sweden to Eritrea to help build up his homeland after independence in 1993.
There, he co-founded the independent newspaper Setit, which was however shut down. After openly criticizing the Eritrean government and demanding human rights and democratic reforms, Dawit Isaak was imprisoned in September 2001 along with several colleagues.
The Eritrean authorities have not provided any information about Dawit Isaak, which UN experts in 2021 described as "extremely worrying". The year before, information from a credible source had indicated that Dawit Isaak was still alive, according to the UN experts. The uncertainty is the hardest, according to Betlehem Isaak.
We are living in limbo.
