A resolution recognizing widespread decades-long human rights abuses in Eritrea, including indefinite imprisonment, inhumane prison conditions, and the absence of democratic institutions, and expressing support for the rights and freedom of the Eritrean people.
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Latest Action · July 31, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text: CR S5002)
This Senate resolution condemns the Eritrean government for decades of severe human rights abuses, including arbitrary imprisonment, torture, religious persecution, and forced labor. The resolution notes that despite adopting a democratic constitution in 1997, Eritrea has never held national elections, maintains no independent judiciary or free press, and operates as a one-party state under President Isaias Afwerki with no functioning legislature since 2002. The document cites multiple United Nations reports documenting crimes against humanity, inhumane prison conditions (including detentions in underground bunkers and shipping containers), and forced national service that was supposed to last 18 months but has become indefinite for thousands of citizens. As a nonbinding resolution rather than legislation, this has no funding or implementation requirements, but it formally expresses Senate support for Eritrean democratic freedoms and calls on the government to release political prisoners, allow international human rights oversight, and implement its constitution.
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