A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 93 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response had a fair and just trial before a legal national and competent court. The trial sessions were public and were attended by the lawyers who represented the respondents; and the trial was concluded in a reasonable period. Hence this negates the occurrence of any violation by the trial of article 14 of the ICCPR. For all the above reasons, the allegations that the rights of the three suspects were violated are incorrect and groundless. 66. Eritrea 09/03/07 JAL FRDX; TOR Joshua Yohannes Fessehaye, aged 48, poet, playwright and a journalist with the weekly “Setit”. Mr. Fessehaye died on 11 January 2007 as a result of the treatment he had received in detention and of the very harsh conditions in the Eiraeiro prison camp in the desert of the Red Sea province. The detainees are permanently manacled. Their food consists of bread, lentils, spinach or potatoes. They sleep on the ground with two sheets. Any contact with other prisoners or with guards is absolutely forbidden. In the course of 2005 and 2006 several journalists, such as Said Abdulkader, co-founder and editor of the weekly Admas, Medhanie Haile, co-founder and deputy editor of the weekly Keste Debena, and Yusuf Mohamed Ali, the editor of the weekly Tsigenay, died in Eiraeiro prison camp as a result of the conditions.Yohannes Fessehaye surrendered to the police in September 2001 in a wave of arrests of media professionals and opinion-makers. Around that time the popular weekly “Setit”, where he worked, was banned. Fessehaye Yohannes was first held at a police