Eritrea: Protest Graffiti on the Streets of Asmara

(Asmara 07-12-2014) Team Freedom Friday in Asmara had a weekend of on-streets campaign activities, mostly carried out during the evenings of Saturday and Sunday 5th and 6th December. The campaign included, posters, stickers and graffiti intended to remind residents of the city of the letters of the Catholic Bishops written some 6 months ago, calling for a collective action to challenge the root cause of the mass exodus of young Eritreans fleeing their country.

One of the graffiti messaged that was most prominent was in central Asmara in an area customarily known as ‘Commisariato Hammasien’, outside restaurant Mosob Werqi. The message of the graffiti calls residents for action and clearly indicates that Team Arbi harnet are indeed responsible for the actions.

Similarly on Saturday night many nightclub goers came out to find stickers asking ‘where is your Brother?’ on their cars in the early hours of the morning. These actions are an indication of the rising confidence of the Resistance inside the country.

Members of the team who carried out the actions informed their colleagues in the diaspora that, the driving force for their actions is the conviction that the many Eritreans sacrificed their lives did so forth coming generations could live in a just and democratic country and not one where citizens live in constant fear.

Freedom Friday (Arbi Harnet) is a movement for freedom and justice in Eritrea, with activists inside the country and in the diaspora communities across the globe. Since its inception on 11-11-11, three years ago the movement has worked hard to penetrate the regime ‘s strong hold of fear inside Eritrea and is supporting a slow but sure resistance movement inside the country.