Habteab Yemane: high court judge in Eritrea, refugee in Switzerland
Habteab Yemane became a lawyer because he believed in a constitutional state, but his journey led him somewhere else entirely.
Now living in Switzerland as a refugee, he explains how he became a judge in Eritrea’s high court – and how its dictatorship wields power. Yemane was a judge in Eritrea’s high court, but he never took the oath of office. No one ever did. Eritrea’s 1997 constitution remains unimplemented. “These are...
