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Claim 670

Description of Isaac's legal status after years in detention.

Published 2026-09-23. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: Description of Isaac's legal status after years in detention.
Field: action
Value: Never publicly charged or tried
About: incident 2001-eritrea-jails-journalists-indefinitely
Source: Dawit Isaac: jailed 3,127 days in Eritrea without trial
Publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2010-04-16

Quotation from the source

He has never been publicly charged with a crime or been given a trial.