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Claim 672

Description tying the closures to the constitution's suspension.

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

Statement: Description tying the closures to the constitution's suspension.
Field: action
Value: Constitution suspended after closing private newspapers
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

a document President Isaias Afeworki indefinitely suspended in September 2001 after shutting down private newspapers like Isaac's Setit