A report on Eritrea and Freedom of the press

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Cumhuriyet s former editor-in-chief Can Dündar receiving the 2015 Reporters Without Borders Prize. Shortly after, he was arrested.

Deka Rock Art in Deka Arbaa, Debub region of Eritrea dated to 100,000 years ago

Pre-Axumite monolithic columns in Qohaito

Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000.

Bronze oil lamp excavated at Matara, dating from the Kingdom of Dʿmt (first century BC or earlier)

First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica

Bahta Hagos was an important leader of the Eritrean resistance to foreign domination, specifically against northern Ethiopian and Italian colonialism.

The Statute was adopted as the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, granting freedom of the press.

Postcard of the Carabinieri sent from Italian Eritrea in 1907

Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was a driving force of suppressing freedom of the press in Nazi Germany.

Eritrean War of Independence against Ethiopia 1961–1991

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a journalist and critic, but was murdered by the Saudi Government.

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President Isaias Afewerki with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, December 2002

The 23d ISCOE East Africa Conference in Asmara in 2019

Independence Day is one of the most important public holidays in Eritrea.

A map of Eritrea regions. 1.Northern Red Sea, 2.Anseba, 3.Gash-Barka, 4.Central (to right), 5.Southern, 6.Southern Red Sea

Steam train outside Asmara on the Eritrean Railway

A woman and a man in Barentu wearing traditional clothes

Building of regional administration in Asmara

Traditional Eritrean agudo/tukul huts in a village near Barentu

Tour of Eritrea cycling competition in Asmara, Eritrea.

Freedom of the press in Eritrea is extremely limited; the Press Freedom Index consistently ranks it as one of the least free countries.

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The ten countries with the least press freedom were, in order: North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Turkmenistan, Myanmar, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, and Syria.

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The Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders since 2002 based upon the organisation's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year.

The ten countries with the least press freedom were, in order: North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Turkmenistan, Myanmar, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, and Syria.