The Edelstam Prize

En dotters hopp efter 25 år: "Jag hoppas fortfarande att få återse honom. Att få prata med honom. Att få höra hans röst igen. Att få se honom skriva med den där pennan som alltid följde honom." Danait Isaak om #DawitIsaak olagligt fängslad i #Eritrea expressen.se/kultur/kulturd…

Dawit Isaak: 9,000 days held without charge or trial in Eritrea. @bergersus and @Edelstam are right that #Sweden has a window now, as the US weighs sanctions relief for Asmara, to make Isaak's release and that of other long-term detainees a condition rather than an afterthought. Ending hostage diplomacy works when, if needed, the right amount of leverage is used; it fails when the moment passes. America and Sweden can make this happen as a new chapter with Eritrea unfolds. Cake-cutting with US officials and dictators makes for public diplomacy; the release of political prisoners makes for a genuine celebration. Isaak and the US persons wrongfully detained must be released. #HumanRights @GLALegalDefense @AsstSecStateAF @EmbassyEritrea @US_SrAdvisorAF

Frihet är en handling, inte en förhandlingsfråga. Att släppa #DawitIsaak handlar inte om diplomatiska artigheter eller politiska formuleringar – det handlar om vilket land #Sverige vill vara. När en svensk medborgare fängslas utan rättegång år efter år prövas inte bara regeringarnas ord, utan hela vår syn på mänskliga rättigheter, ansvar och medborgerlig värdighet i världen. @Sverigesriksdag @MariaStenergard, för den svenska demokratins, värderingarnas och stolthetens skull. #DawitIsaak måste släppas och föras hem med sin familj. #DawitIsaaks #BlueRevolution #Sweden #EBRF #RegimeChangeInEritrea @MariaStenergard @Sverigesriksdag @SvD @PENsweden @SweMFA @bergersus @sverigesradio @BietelhemI @Edelstam @SelemawitKidane @ErmiLiberty @SwedenGeneva @SwedeninEU

More than 9,000 days have passed, and the world still does not know exactly where #DawitIsaak is being held. The #Swedish Eritrean journalist was arrested in Eritrea in September 2001 after independent newspapers were shut down and journalists were targeted by the Eritrean #Regime. He has never been given a trial, charged in court, or allowed regular contact with his family. Alongside him, many priests, journalists, political prisoners, and innocent civilians have been kidnapped, disappeared, and imprisoned without justice. The Eritrean people deserve justice, democratic transition, development, freedom of speech, rule of law, and dignity. Everything human beings need to live freely should be guaranteed, not denied. #RegimeChangeInEritrea is not just political it is a human rights necessity. #BlueRevolution #TransnationalRepration #EBRF #NoMorePFDJTorror @BereketKahsai1 @BeyeneGerezghe1 @CmaDawit @HabtomGheb64613 @SwedishPM @SweMFA @AmnestySverige @amnesty @pressfreedom @RSF_inter @FreeDawit @pen_int @PEN_Ertra @TheRWCHR @LantosFndn @RSF_RUG @Tunback @Europarl_EN @EP_President @EUCouncil @EritreaMfa @CPJAfrica @MehariMeng53005 @bergersus @eu_eeas @kajakallas @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @JasonPoblete @EvaMariaHall @MehariMeng53005 @Danait4 @BietelhemI @KurdoBaksi @esayasisaak @Edelstam

#BlueRevolution #TransnationalRepration #EBRF #NoMorePFDJTorror @BereketKahsai1 @BeyeneGerezghe1 @CmaDawit @HabtomGheb64613 @SwedishPM @SweMFA @AmnestySverige @amnesty @pressfreedom @RSF_inter @FreeDawit @pen_int @PEN_Ertra @TheRWCHR @LantosFndn @RSF_RUG @Tunback @Europarl_EN @EP_President @EUCouncil @EritreaMfa @CPJAfrica @MehariMeng53005 @bergersus @eu_eeas @kajakallas @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @JasonPoblete @EvaMariaHall @MehariMeng53005 @Danait4 @BietelhemI @KurdoBaksi @esayasisaak @Edelstam

HAW Daily Brief 1/6 Imprisoned for 9,000 Days – Dawit Isaak Must Be Released Now! hostageaid.org/imprisoned-for… Sweden - Global Bar Dawit Isaak has now spent more than a third of his life in prison. His family has the right to the truth about his fate. The EU has for years abstained from directly challenging Eritrea on the issue of human rights, counting instead on continued engagement and an “enhanced interactive dialogue” with the regime. The lackluster results of this approach strongly suggest that if Dawit Isaak is to be saved, Sweden and its European partners need to dramatically change course and finally make the rescue of their own citizen a top priority. Sweden and the EU are at a crossroad: Either they seek Dawit Isaak’s rescue with the determination and focus his situation demands; or they simply allow Eritrea to string them along, permitting both the uncertainty and the crimes committed against him to continue. After 9,000 days of painful waiting, Dawit Isaak and his family deserve to know which it will be. @bergersus @Edelstam @TheRWCHR @BietelhemI @Danait4 @FreeDawit

6/6 My Father Has Been Imprisoned for 9,000 Days
hostageaid.org/my-father-has-… Sweden - Expressen When her father, Dawit Isaak, was arrested in Eritrea, she had just turned three years old. That was 9,000 days ago. Danait Isaak has not given up hope of seeing him again — but Sweden must do more. I believe Sweden needs to act more clearly against Eritrea’s regime. Sanctions within the EU need to be pushed harder. Despite everything, my family and I have never stopped hoping. I still hope to see him again. To speak with him as an adult. To hear his voice again. To see him writing with that pen that always followed him. But hope must not become an excuse for passivity. 9,000 days is 9,000 days too many. Sweden must dare to do more — not only for my father, but for all Swedish citizens who are still being silenced and deprived of their freedom by dictatorships. @bergersus @Edelstam @TheRWCHR @BietelhemI @Danait4 @FreeDawit

#DawitIsaak #AmanuelAsrat #SeyoumTsehaye are the world’s longest imprisoned journalists. Where are the world’s journalists &news organizations taking up their cause, demanding their freedom?

«Ett angrepp på en journalist är ett angrepp på oss alla“ “An attack on one journalist is an attack on us all”. #FreeDawitIsaak #FreeAmmanuelAsrat #FreeSeyoumTsehaye #FreeGuiMinhai blankspot.se/kronika-dawit-…

#DawitIsaak's intern. counsel @IrwinCotler has sent a letter of inquiry to @MariaStenergard Has Eritrea provided a proof of life for his client and granted consular access? If not, Eritrea must urgently provide an explanation for this failure. globalbar.se/2026/05/impris…

Iseyas Afeworki is the root cause of so much pain in the Horn of Africa and all Eritrean suffering. The continued imprisonment of #Swedish journalist #DawitIsaak and #American citizen child #Ciham Ali Abdu and all #Eritrean citizens demands global attention, accountability and real action. Silence and engagement without accountability only prolongs injustice. #FreeThemAll #BlueRevolution #EBRF @POTUS @ForeignPolicy @bergersus @TiborPNagyJr @mrubin1971 @SenTedCruz @BradSherman @Sverigesriksdag @MariaStenergard

Dawit Isaak har suttit fängslad i 8987 dagar. Visa ditt stöd här! #freedawit #BlueRevolution @Edelstam @Tunback @MehariMeng53005 @bergersus @HostageAid @martinplaut @EvaMariaHall @martinschibbye @MariaStenergard @journalistforb @KjetilTronvoll @UN expressen.se/nyheter/free-d…