Eritrea: Journalists still jailed after five years

After five years, Eritrean journalists still jailed in secret prisons without due process. Five years after Eritrea's brutal crackdown on the independent press, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for the release of 13 journalists held incommunicado in secret jails and two other journalists forced into extended military service. Basic information about the jailed journalists - most of whom were swept up in a September 18, 2001, crackdown - has become nearly impossible to obtain from official sources in Africa's most repressive country.