Caroline Edelstam, President of the Edelstam Foundation Susanne Berger, Senior Research Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights International attention and diplomatic protests alone are not enough to secure the…
PRESS RELEASE SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 September 23 marks 25 years since Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak was forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained by Eritrean authorities. Arrested alongside several fellow journalists in September 2001,…
One Swedish prisoner has sat in an Eritrean cell for 25 years, while Europe continues its dialogue that has proved wholly ineffective. A guest dispatch in Poblete Dispatches by Susanne…
Debattartikel i Global Bar Magazine av Susanne Berger och Caroline Edelstam, 29 juli, 2026 EU omprövar nu sin politik mot Kuba och hotar med att säga upp det så kallade…
Free Dawit Isaak Now September 23, 2026 marks 25 years since the enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention of Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak in Eritrea. For a quarter of a century,…
“The clearest example is that no action has been taken several months after the Foreign Minister’s official demand for Dawit Isaak’s immediate release, despite Eritrea’s continued refusal to comply. Appeasing…
April 29, 2026 – In an article in Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, researcher Susanne Berger writes that "The West is Courting Favour with Eritrea – Putting Aside Human-Rights…
Varför kräver Sverige och EU inte mer kraftfullt frigivningen av Dawit Isaak, en svensk och EU-medborgare, friges? Svaret ligger i EU:s officiella politiska hållning gentemot Eritrea. Enligt interna EU-rapporter från…
Why do Sweden and the EU not insist more forcefully on the release of Swedish & EU citizen Dawit Isaak? The answer lies in the EU's official policy approach to…
Sweden and the EU's highly pragmatic approach towards Eritrea has failed to secure any clear concessions from one of the world's most repressive regimes write SUSANNE BERGER and CAROLINE EDELSTAM…