Sweden has ordered a diplomat from Eritrea’s embassy to leave the country within the next 48 hours.
“I can confirm that a foreign diplomat has been ordered to leave the country but I can’t go into the reasons,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Charlotta Ozaki Macías told the TT news agency. The ministry has a
The ministry has a policy of not revealing the nationality of diplomats ejected from Sweden.
A number of TT’s sources however were able to independently confirm that Sweden had given the first secretary at the Eritrean embassy just two days to leave.
A spokeswoman for the embassy declined to comment when reached by The Local.
One source, who asked not to be named, told TT: “It’s been in the works for a long time that an Eritrean diplomat was to be ejected.”
Sweden’s reasons for taking the unusual step are unclear.
Diplomats cannot be prosecuted if they commit a crime but they can be declared persona not grata and told to leave the country.
Many Swedish-Eritreans accuse the embassy of demanding they pay a two-percent exile tax. Failure to pay can result in the embassy refusing to give them ID documents or even harming their families in Eritrea, they say.
The embassy has also faced repeated accusations that it spies on Swedish-Eritreans who are critical of the country’s dictatorial regime.
In Sweden, the best-known such critic is Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist who has spent 13 years in an Eritrean jail without trial.
Source: The Local
Medber September 5, 2014
Wre gena , everything will go upside down I don’t know what the blind supporters will say.
Sham on them.
Kidan September 5, 2014
This is a great news for those who seek justice in Eritrea. Now we need to work hard in UK to expose the 2% and other issues.
Kombishtato September 5, 2014
Job well done Sweden. Keep on sending them back to the hell called Eritrea. that is the eritrea they created in the name of “liberation”.
Issaias will one day eat them for lunch for the job they messed up one by one.
Some like the criminal Ali Abdu may have escaped after committing lots of crimes but many will face the music. Issaias will finish them. Recently, the former Defence Minister Sibhat Ephrem was purged into a little office in the name of “Ministry of Mining”.
ahmed saleh September 5, 2014
The flow of Eritrean refugees inside
Europe and the tradegy brought at
their sea shore start to ring on the
ears of their politicians & to question
the activity of Eritrean embassies .
When someone engage on ingoing
conflicts it brings damaging outcome.
HGDF policy has that kind reputation
since day one , unlawlessness inside
and outside the country.
Saba Tmicael September 5, 2014
Well done Swedish Government!!!!!!! I hope other countries would follow your foot step.
Berhe Tensea September 5, 2014
I hope Sweden orders all puppets of the Tembein regime out and sends them to Hawzien or LilteAwlaealo were they belong.
Sirak.D September 5, 2014
A clear and simple message for higdefawiyan, in a strong language that they understand is no messing around any more/anywhere. In other word, “Kem kedem yimeslekin W’hij yiwesdekin” indeed. And truly the “Wi’hij” is taking them to hell.
nasir September 5, 2014
GOOD JOB LIKE WE DID IN CANADA SEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMER
Solomon Haile September 6, 2014
Temesgen! Gena were Kalie alo halengi wutsuat halengi zektamat halengi dikatat abziban higdefawiyan likie kem nay ‘ISEPA’nay seytan mengisti nenihidhida tibalae tikolales alo. Dem nitsuh Eritrawi nay kedemin nay hijin ab riesekum alo tsemamat ‘HIGDEF’ abey dea kirdeakum ! Good job !!!! Sweden government I am so glad keep it!
oromay September 6, 2014
This is decision is a staggering blow to the bunch of bandits. The PFDJ agent was not a diplomat, he was a blatant spy on Innocent Eritreans. Hope, the USA, UK, France, Germany to take similiar actions as the Cabadian and Swedish governments did. Ethiopia is also preparing to topple the crazy man.