World Association of News Publishers


Dawit Isaak

On the 15 September 2011, the European Parliament passed a resolution on Eritrea and in particular the case of Dawit Isaak. WAN-IFRA fully backs the resolution and calls for the immediate release of Dawit Isaak and all imprisoned journalists in Eritrea.

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Andrew Heslop's picture

Andrew Heslop

Date

2011-09-23 13:08

Peter Englund is the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He has joined the World Press Freedom Day campaign this year to highight the plight of WAN-IFRA's 2011 Golden Pen of Freedom laureate, Dawit Isaak, incarcerated without charge for nearly a decade in a notorious Eritrean jail. In his essay, Peter Englund explores how the right to dissent and question strengthens a nation, and that this universal right can not be taken for granted.

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William Granger

Date

2011-03-28 13:44

Créer un journal indépendant dans les pays ravagés par la guerre et marqués par la pauvreté est une tâche extrêmement difficile. Si à ces deux fléaux s’ajoutent famine, dictature militaire et le fait que le pays en question se trouve être l’Érythrée, la tâche devient pratiquement impossible. C’est dans ce contexte que Dawit Isaak, co-fondateur du premier journal indépendant de ce pays et lauréat de la Plume d’or 2011 décernée par la WAN-IFRA, a œuvré et son action est d’autant plus remarquable.

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Andrew Heslop's picture

Andrew Heslop

Date

2011-02-25 16:30

La Plume d’or de la liberté 2011, le prix annuel de la liberté de la presse remis par WAN-IFRA, est décernée à Dawit Isaak, le fondateur du premier journal indépendant érythréen emprisonné depuis neuf ans sans chef d’inculpation ni procès.

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Alison Meston

Date

2011-02-24 17:46

Aspiring independent journalists in any war-ravaged, poverty-stricken country face a daunting task. If you add famine, military dictatorship, and the fact that the particular country in question is Eritrea, this task becomes nigh on impossible. In such a context the achievements of Dawit Isaak, co-founder of the country’s first independent newspaper and laureate of the 2011 WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom, are all the more remarkable.

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Andrew Heslop's picture

Andrew Heslop

Date

2011-01-14 17:13

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Andrew Heslop

Date

2011-01-13 17:20

A journalist with dual Eritrean-Swedish citizenship, Dawit Isaak is one of the founders of Eritrea's first independent newspaper, Setit, and is currently one member of a group of reformist political prisoners who have been detained without charge or trial for the past nine years.

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Andrew Heslop's picture

Andrew Heslop

Date

2011-01-13 17:04

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