EU PARLIAMENT
27 May, 2025
BRUSSELS | 27 May 2025 (IDN) — The European Parliament paid tribute to Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist and 2009 and 2017 Sakharov Prize finalist with a powerful event spotlighting his story and the ongoing fight for press freedom.
Dawit Isaak has been imprisoned in Eritrea along with 11 Eritrean colleagues since 2001 without trial, one of the world’s longest-standing cases of media suppression. This tribute event featured a screening of “Dawit or Every Century Has Its Own Hideous Face”, a very poignant audiovisual production based on a play by Wolfgang Martin Roth and directed by Luzie Kurth. The film recreates the harrowing conditions of Dawit’s presumed detention — a sweltering metal shipping container — and gives voice to his thoughts, writings, and dreams silenced by the Eritrean regime.
Vice-President of the European Parliament Sophie Wilmès opened the event on 27 May underscoring the EP’s commitment to press freedom and human rights. Following the screening, a panel discussion brought together prominent voices in journalism, policy, and advocacy.
Read the full article here from INDP-News
Read more about the project “Voices for Dawit Isaak” here
