UN rights chief accuses Eritrea of torture, killings
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United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions.
Pillay told the UN Human Rights Council there were between 5,000 and 10,000 political prisoners in the secretive African nation of some 6 million people which has been ruled by a single party and president since independence from Ethiopia in 1993. "The human rights situation in Eritrea is a matter of deep concern," said Pillay. (Reuters)
