Prisoners of conscience

Since 2001 Eritrea has the largest number of prisoners of conscience anywhere in the world. There are now increasing protests from the Eritrean community in the Diaspora. In August 2006 groups of Eritrean and their friends took the initiative to break this silence, by marching from New York City's Statue of Liberty to the Capitol Hill in Washington . They wished to draw international attention to the repression of the Eritrean people by their own government and to break the Diaspora's silence on the Eritrean issue. Their message was: the time has come to campaign for the Eritrean people to be freed from their oppression and their prisons.

Eritrean websites asmarino.com. awate.com, faraji.com and Voice of Delina
have played an important role in reporting on the G15 and on the journalists who exposed the government's lies in accusing the G15 of treason in September. EHREAs resources which were initially located at Justice4ermias (www.justice4ermias.org.uk) also made a contribution to making accessible all publications to relating to the prisoners