The U.N. Human Rights Council released a disturbing report on abuses by the Eritrean government yesterday. Mark Leon Goldberg sums up some of the reports’ more outrageous findings about the East African dictatorship’s practices, including the training of children to act as spies for the regime, an extortive “coupon system” that maintains government control over nearly every aspect of daily life, and the widespread use of gruesome torture methods against prisoners. “The commission finds that the use of torture is so widespread that it can only conclude it is a policy of the Government to encourage its use for the punishment of individuals perceived as opponents to its rule,” the report states.
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