Tesfai Gebreab

Tesfai "Gomorra" Gebreab is a former Eritrean diplomat who is now imprisoned.[1] Amnesty International has called his imprisonment a political arrest in response to his comments on the G-15 detentions.[1]

He has been in prison since October 23, 2001, a day after he expressed his opinion in a meeting in the Foreign Ministry that judgment should be reserved on the G-15 until both sides of the story were aired. He has been held in detention incommunicado since the day he was arrested. No one has been allowed to visit him and none of his family have seen him since that time.

During the armed struggle was with Seban Kilten "72", the intelligence unit commanded by Petros Solomon, After independence, Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, previously a director in the Ministry of Labour, and earlier employed in the Immigration Department and the PFDJ headquarters. For some years he was assigned in the EPLF office in Khartoum, Sudan. He is a trained pharmacist who joined the EPLF in the 1970s. He studied in the US and was awarded a Master’s degree at Syracuse University in international relations in 2000 and when he returned to Asmara was assigned as a Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Eritrea.

References

  1. 1 2 Eritrea: Arbitrary Detentions of Government Critics and Journalists. Rep. Amnesty International. Web. 27 Oct. 2010. <http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AFR64/008/2002/en/e82e2d28-d801-11dd-9df8-936c90684588/afr640082002en.html>.


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