Meet Vanessa Berhe, founder of One Day Seyoum, an organization working for the release of imprisoned journalist Seyoum Tsehaye in Eritrea. Eritrea has consistently ranked among the world’s worst jailers of journalists and has topped CPJ’s Prison Census of Sub-Saharan African countries with the most imprisoned journalists for the last 10 years.
At the end of 2016 Eritrea held 17 journalists in detention and continues to hold them without charge. No Eritrean detainee on CPJ’s census has ever been brought before a court. Gaining information on prisoners like Seyoum Tsehaye is extremely difficult because of the Eritrean government’s heavy censorship and refusal to provide information.
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