Escaping Eritrea News Today

The 2021 FRONTLINE documentary is an undercover investigation inside one of the most tightly controlled countries on Earth.

Summer of Soul, Inside among final Peabody Award winners. The Peabody Awards announced the final award winners for the 82nd annual awards on Thursday. Questloves Summer of Soul documentary can add a Peabody to its Oscar and other award wins.

The 2021 FRONTLINE film chronicling renowned journalist Maria Ressa's fight for press freedom in the Philippines won a George Foster Peabody Award on Wednesday.

Four FRONTLINE documentaries — "A Thousand Cuts," "American Insurrection," "Escaping Eritrea" and "The Healthcare Divide" — were nominated for Peabody Awards on Wednesday, April 13.

An unprecedented undercover investigation into one of the world’s most repressive regimes. Exclusive secret footage and testimony shed new light on shocking allegations of torture, arbitrary detention and indefinite forced conscription.

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 | “Frontline: Escaping Eritrea” premieres on PBS

The United Nations estimates that Eritrea is among the top three countries, alongside Syria and South Sudan, with the greatest proportion of their citizens who have become refugees — with 12,500 refugees per 100,000 people. According to the U.N.’s last available estimates, released in mid-2020, more than half a million Eritreans have become refugees. In FRONTLINE’s latest documentary, Escaping Eritrea, producer Evan Williams set out to learn what was driving so many Eritreans from their...

Isolated from the world by President Isaias Afwerki’s 30-year authoritarian rule, the east African nation of Eritrea remains intentionally unknown. “It’s impossible, or very difficult, to get an accurate picture, because the government has closed the country so effectively that even those who have successfully fled the country are afraid to speak publicly, out of fear for what could happen to their families,” said Adotei Akwei, an Amnesty International deputy director who specializes in...

In the more than four years he was detained in a military-run Eritrean prison, Michael said he never lost hope. Speaking with FRONTLINE in 2016, in an early stage of what would be a multiyear investigation, Michael said he saw and experienced many abuses while imprisoned: months of brutal interrogations. Masses of fellow detainees packed into large, overcrowded holding rooms, many confined for years without trial. People driven out of their minds by the conditions in which they were being held....

Streaming at 7/6c at pbs.org/frontline & in the PBS Video App www.facebook.com/frontline | Twitter: @frontlinepbs Instagram: @frontlinepbs | YouTube: youtube.com/frontline Over the past two decades, more than a half a million Eritreans have fled their home country in eastern Africa. They say they are escaping one of the most repressive and secretive dictatorships in the world. Now, with exclusive secret footage and testimony, an undercover investigation by FRONTLINE and Channel 4 in the UK docu...