Eritrean Fighter Pilot, Escapee, Calls for Justice for Jailed Compatriots
(WorldNews Africa)

Dejen Ande Hishel was an elite Eritrean fighter pilot. He trained in Russia and flew twin-engine MiG-29 Soviet jets during Eritrea`s war with Ethiopia in the late 1990s. But in 1999, Eritrean authorities arrested him, for reasons that remain unclear. He was never formally charged with a crime or faced trial, but nonetheless he spent 15 years in a maximum-security prison before escaping in 2014. Today Dejen lives in Sweden and is speaking out on behalf of others imprisoned in Eritrea, many of whom have been held incommunicado, without a trial or hearing, for more than a decade. `I feel a sense of responsibility to speak not only for myself, but for all of those left in prison,` Dejen told...