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Articles by Judith Abitan
What a Journalist Jailed For 20 Years Reveals About the Global Assault on Independent Media
In 2001, the Eritrean government shut down the entire independent press. The Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak, a prolific writer and courageous journalist with Setit, Eritrea’s first independent newspaper, was arbitrarily detained, held incommunicado, and denied access to family, consular assistance, and the right to counsel—effectively, an enforced disappearance. The “crime”?
Opinion | Dawit Isaak has been in prison longer than any other journalist in the world. Eritrea must let him go.
Comment Save Judith Abitan is the executive director of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Irwin Cotler is the international chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.
Beijing’s Culture of Corruption Costs Lives Everywhere
Irwin Cotler & Judith Abitan Globe & Mail April 15, 2020 There is authoritative and compelling evidence that if President Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had intervened and reported on its coronavirus outbreak three weeks earlier, transmission of COVID-19 could have been reduced significantly around the world. One study, from the University of Southampton, even suggested transmission could have been reduced by 95 per cent. Read Full Article »
Xi Jinping's Corrupt Regime Did This
Xi Jinping's Corrupt Regime Did This The corrupt, criminal regime wasted 40 days blocking information while it crushed domestic dissent and ensured COVID-19 would become a global pandemic Read Full Article »
Xi Jinping’s China did this
There is authoritative and compelling evidence — including a study from the University of Southampton — that if interventions in China had been conducted three weeks earlier, transmission of COVID-19 could have been reduced by 95 percent.
Xi Jinping’s China did this
There is authoritative and compelling evidence — including a study from the University of Southampton — that if interventions in China had been conducted three weeks earlier, transmission of COVID-19 could have been reduced by 95 percent.
Irwin Cotler and Judith Abitan: Slavery and repression in modern Mauritania
Although Mauritania claims that it has abolished slavery, it actually remains one of the world’s only bastions of slavery. Biram Dah Abeid is the leader of the international anti-slavery movement and president of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania (IRA-Mauritania).
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