Judith Abitan and Irwin Cotler

Abitan is the Executive Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, an international human rights advocate, and acted as Chief of Staff to Irwin Cotler when he was a Member of Parliament in the Canadian Parliament. Cotler is the International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and long-time parliamentarian

Judith Abitan and Irwin Cotler

Eritrean Journalist Dawit Isaak Has Been Jailed For 20 Years

In 2001, the Eritrean government shut down the entire independent press. The Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, a prolific writer and courageous journalist with Setit, Eritrea’s first independent newspaper, was arbitrarily detained, held incommunicado, and denied...