journalist Yusuf Ibrahim Yusuf (police) who was working at Al-Amana or Hidre magazine of the ruling party in Eritrea has arrived last week in Khartoum escaping brutality of the Eritrean regime.

Khartoum: adoulis

journalist Yusuf Ibrahim Yusuf (police) who was working at Al-Amana or Hidre magazine of the ruling party in Eritrea has arrived last week in Khartoum escaping brutality of the Eritrean regime.

Yusuf lamented the conditions of press and journalists in Eritrea, saying that the places and situation of the Eritrean journalists who are in the regime’s prisons are not known.

He indicated that the news which had been leaked about the death of some of the detained journalists might be true.

He added that the country is divided into two categories; few people who support the regime’s practices and they are associated and probably involved in the regime’s crimes and on the other hand the majority of the people who oppose the internal and foreign policies of the regime.

Yusuf pointed out in statements to the Eritrean Center for Media Services (ECMS) that the economical situation in the country is going from bad to worse as increasing the suffering of the people’s living conditions.

Moreover, he said that the country is living a virtual state of war through conscription, sending students to camps and forcing villagers to work on the roads without wages.

It is worthy mentioning that Mr. Yusuf graduated from one of Algiers universities and worked in the 1990s as an editor and translator in Eritrea Al-Haditha newspaper, director of Al-Fajir newspaper which was issued by Sudanese migrants in Asmara and chief editor of Al-Nabd newspaper, the mouthpiece of the National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students.