"Prisoner - Dawit Isaak and silence"

In connection with the tenth anniversary of the incarceration of the Swedish-Eritrean journalist: Dawit Isaac, a documentary from the Swedish media SVT was broadcasted in September. The documentary deals with Dawit as a person and a professional,  why he was jailed, why he is still not released, the efforts to get him free and how we should deal with a government like the present one in Eritrea. Entitled "Prisoner - Dawit Isaak and silence", the documetnary contains a unique material that shows how the dictator's hand stretches back to Sweden. It underlined how the Eritrean regime has developed a system to control, monitor and drive exiled Eritreans out of money. accroding to the documentary, they must pay two percent of their income to the Eritrean regime.

Equipped with a hidden camera, the radio station Voice of Delina Meselna exposed Eritrean embassy by sending someone inside the embassy. Under the pretext that he needs a passport, he went to the embassy in Stockholm;When he got to know what documents costs added Embassy official:

"And your TWO-PERCENT tax, we expect when we have received your tax return," said embassy official.
"Okay, so I have to pay taxes, too?" asks radio employee.
"Yes, it is clear that you should pay, what did you expect?" responsible embassy official.
"But what, you pay taxes for a passport?"
"How long have you actually lived in Sweden?"
"Three years, but I ..."
- "We'll see when you leave your tax return," said embassy official.

The embassy usually defend themselves by arguing that the tax is voluntary. However, EEPA Director Mirjam van Reisen explaines in the documentary that the problem is not the tax itself but the existence of network controlling Eritreans even in Europe. (starting at 52:21)

Click here to watch the docuemtnary "Prisoner - Dawit Isaak and silence".