According to Sweden, Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean Journalist Detained in Eritrea for 24 Years, Is Alive

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The man was part of a group of about 20 people, including ministers, deputies and independent journalists, who were arrested in September 2001 during a purge conducted by President Isaias Afwerki against his opponents.

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Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard's trip to Eritrea raises new hope that Dawit Isaak can be released from prison, his daughters say: "We know he is alive," says his daughter Betlehem Isaak.

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Betlehem Isaak, the daughter of imprisoned journalist Dawit Isaak, hopes that the foreign minister's visit to Eritrea is not just a courtesy visit. "For our family, there is only one measure of whether this visit is successful - the release of our father," she says.