INDEPENDENT UN EXPERT STRESSES NEED TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS OF SECTS OF PROTESTANT (UNMEE) INTO GROWTH OF MUSLIM THAT SUSPECT BOSTON AND TEXAS BOMBING FROM BROADER INTO ETHIOPIA SITUATION IN ERITREA

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INDEPENDENT UN EXPERT STRESSES NEED TO IMPROVE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION
IN ERITREANew York, May 14 2013 2:00PMThe international community
must keep Eritrea under "close scrutiny", an independent United
Nations expert said today, stressing the need to fundamentally
transform the East African nation's "current culture of rights
denial."

"Blatant disrespect for human rights in Eritrea is unacceptable," said
Sheila Keetharuth, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights
situation in Eritrea, after a 10-day mission to Ethiopia and Djibouti
to collect first-hand information directly from Eritrean refugees on
the human rights situation in their country.

"Real change would require a fundamental reform process transforming
the current culture of rights denial with one anchored in the rule of
law, respect for and realization of all human rights and human
dignity."

A lawyer from Mauritius, Ms. Keetharuth was appointed to her current
position by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council in September
2012.

She warned in a news release that the high numbers of Eritrean
refugees in neighbouring Ethiopia and Djibouti is "indicative of the
serious human rights violations in Eritrea, pushing people to take the
difficult decision to leave their families and homes behind for an
unknown future."

"An improvement in the human rights situation in Eritrea will be
crucial to allow refugees to return to their home country," Ms.
Keetharuth noted, while commending the efforts by Ethiopia and
Djibouti to host the large Eritrean refugee communities.

"Many of those refugees I spoke to underlined their wish to return,
should there be a significant shift from the Government's current
brutal and inhumane policies and practices."

Since the beginning of the year, close to 4,000 Eritrean refugees have
crossed the border into Ethiopia, bringing the number of those living
in the three refugee camps in the Tigray region to over 50,000.

"I am particularly concerned about the increasing number of
unaccompanied children crossing the border without the knowledge of
their families," Ms. Keetharuth said. "Children regularly mentioned
dysfunctional family circumstances due to the long absence of the
father, most of the time because of conscription, lack of educational
opportunities and the fear of forced conscription into indefinite
national service as major reasons for their decisions to flee."

The Special Rapporteur voiced particular concern about the indefinite
national service, the ongoing practice of arbitrary arrest and
incommunicado detention in inhumane conditions and widespread torture,
both physical and psychological, during interrogation by the police,
military and security forces. Mere suspicion appears to be enough for
somebody to be subjected to interrogation and detention without charge
or without being brought before a court of law.

Ms. Keetharuth heard how Eritreans do not express their views or share
their opinions openly for fear of reprisals. "Persecution on religious
grounds continued in Eritrea; followers of unrecognised religions face
draconian restrictions and are often arrested while worshipping," she
said.

"An all-encompassing feeling of fear and distrust, even within
families, reflects the pervasive intelligence network the Eritrean
Government has established throughout the country."

Independent experts, or special rapporteurs, work in an unpaid
capacity to examine and report to the Human Rights Council on a
country situation or a specific human rights theme. Ms. Keetharuth
will present her first report, which would be strictly limited to the
situation inside Eritrea, to the Council in June 2013.May 14 2013
2:00PM
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