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Dawit Isaac

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Name Dawit Isaac
Age 38 at the time of arrest
Sex Male
Arrested Late September 2001, Asmara
Health Current condition unknown
Former Roles Reporter/co-owner and first editor of Setit

Dawit Isaac holds Swedish citizenship from an asylum claim and refugee recognition in the 1980s. He is married with three children. When the journalists were moved to undisclosed places of detention after beginning a hunger strike in early April 2002, Dawit was separated and taken to hospital and held under guard there. Nothing has been heard of him since. Please contact the Swedish section about this case and the attitude of the Swedish government – arnika.flensburg@amnesty.se


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