Summary:-

The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 20/20.

It is based upon the initial observations of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human

rights in Eritrea and information gathered from a variety of other sources, including

Eritrean refugees interviewed during a field mission to neighbouring countries from 30

April to 9 May 2013. In the report, the Special Rapporteur provides an overview of the

most serious human rights concerns in Eritrea, including cases of extrajudicial killing,

enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention, arbitrary arrest and detention,

torture, inhumane prison conditions, indefinite national service, and lack of freedom of

expression and opinion, assembly, association, religious belief and movement. She

addresses a number of recommendations to Eritrea and the international community aimed

at improving respect for human rights in the country.

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THE ERITREAN ANCESTRY OF
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN (1799-1837)

By
Solomon Ghebre-Ghiorghis (M.A., Ph.D.)
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Asmara

1. Significance of Alexander Pushkin

One of the most illustrious figures in the history of world literature and general culture has been Alexander S. Pushkin (1799-1837), the Russian poet, publisher and revolutionary. Some people Shakespeare is to English literature. However, clearly, Pushkin is more than that: he is widely acclaimed
as the founder of modern Russian literature: the literature of Lermontove and Gogol Turgenev and Nekrasov, Dosteyevskynand tolstoy, Chekov and Gorky (Levrin, 1947, pp. 1-9; Gorodetsky, 1957, p. 266). Besides his literary merit, Pushkin also had a remarkable personae of wit, integrity and courage (Gorbachev, 1999, p.v). He stressed his African identity* and was the lover of some of the most beautiful women of his time (Feinstein, 1998, p. 11-21). His short life ended in a manner which was in no way less dramatic than stories told in Greek or Shakespearean tragedies (Serena, 1995).
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