New York, September
26, 2011--A Sweden-based journalist was publicly threatened Friday in
connection with her reporting on the case of Dawit
Isaac, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist who has been imprisoned in Eritrea for
a decade without charge, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. A
day earlier in New York, bodyguards for the Eritrean leader Isaias Afewerki
pushed and threatened two Swedish journalists seeking to speak to the president
about the Isaac case, the journalists said.
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