UN expert accuses Eritrean authorities of crimes against humanity
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A UN expert, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, has stated that systematic and widespread human rights violations, including crimes against humanity, are being committed by authorities in Eritrea. These violations encompass torture, arbitrary detentions, and enforced disappearances, with no significant improvement observed in the human rights situation. Babiker, the UN Special Rapporteur on Eritrea, presented his report to the UN Human Rights Council, asserting that there are reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity continue in the country. He highlighted systematic and widespread enforced disappearances, prolonged incommunicado detentions without charge or trial, torture, and the persecution of political opponents, journalists, and religious communities as central features of governance in Eritrea. Many detainees reportedly remain in prisons for years, sometimes decades, without charge or trial, and authorities refuse to disclose their fate or location. While acknowledging the release of 13 long-term detainees in December 2025, Babiker expressed concern over ongoing arbitrary and prolonged detentions and enforced disappearances, including two prominent Muslim leaders in July 2025. With the Special Rapporteur's mandate nearing its end, over thirty NGOs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have urged the Human Rights Council to extend it. These organizations noted that while Eritrea released a dozen detainees in late 2025 who had been held for ov
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