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Jailed Swedish-Eritrean journalist wins rights prize Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak held incommunicado without charge in Eritrea for more than 23 years won a Swedish rights Edelstam Prize on Monday for his fight for freedom of expression, the jury said. Isaak was among a group of around two dozen people, including senior cabinet ministers, members of parliament and independent journalists, who were seized in a purge in September 2001. Amnesty International considers Isaak a prisoner of conscience, and press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says he and his colleagues detained at the same time are the longest-held journalists in the world, as FRANCE 24's Olivia Bizot reports.