Arrestings
Dawit Isaac  was one of the ten journalists arrested in September 2000. The imprisoned journalists started a hunger strike and resulting in the international attention and protests the journalists were moved to unknown places. Dawit Isaac, who had recently undergone medical surgery, was taken under guard to a hospital in Asmara and after that nothing has been heard of him since. According to Reporters Without Frontiers Dawit Isaac has been tortured and is in hospital. But as no one is allowed to visit him these reports cannot be confirmed.