UN Eritrea inquiry finds clear patterns of rights violations

A year-long United Nations investigation into human rights in Eritrea has found ”very clear patterns” of violations and no rule of law, according to an interim report delivered to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.

GENEVA: A year-long United Nations investigation into human rights in Eritrea has found ”very clear patterns” of violations and no rule of law, according to an interim report delivered to the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday.

”Most Eritreans have no hope for their future,” the chairman of the investigative team, Mike Smith, told the Council. ”Detention is an ordinary fact of life, experienced by an inordinate number of individuals – men and women, old and young, including children.”

(Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by John Stonestreet)

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According to a preliminary report from the United Nations on human rights in Eritrea’s ”very clear patterns” on breaches of human rights, as established by the UN is no genuine rule of law in the country where torture is used widely and detention of civilians, including children, perceived as everyday .

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– Most Eritreans have no hope for the future. Detention is a common part of everyday life, as a disproportionate number of experience – men and women, old and young, including children, says the chairman behind the investigations, Mike Smith.

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