Hunger
strike in detention
EHDR-UK -
28 Oct 2005
The detained parents from
Dekemhare & its suburbs are to stage a hunger strike from Saturday 29
October 2005 for an unspecified period of time. They are protesting
against their detention arguing that their children were the
responsibility of the state and that they should be asking the state to
return their children and not the other way round. They plan to protest
against their unfair detention. The government has asked for a bail money
of 50,000Nakfa for their release and will be taken by the state if their
children failed to return within 30 days. It is also reported that some
children have been left without their parents following the most recent
wave of arrests.
It is to be recalled that
over 200 parents and relatives of those who left the country without exit
visas were detained in the early hours of Monday 24 October 2005. The
detained have asked Eritreans in Diaspora and the international community
to do what they can to secure their release.
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