188 Writers Ask: Are 12 Missing Eritrean Writers Still Alive?

188 writers, including Nobel winners Olga Tokarczuk and J.M. Coetzee, wrote an 18 September letter to Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki asking for immediate, clear proof that 12 writers locked away with no contact — no calls or visits — since 2001 are still alive. 25 years after Eritrea closed free newspapers, naming poet Amanuel Asrat and reporter Dawit Isaak as missing.