Human Rights our Collective Responsibility 5. In that vein, they claim that the Victim in March 2012, in his capacity as Minister of International Development and Finance, made a formal proposal, to a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers chaired by the President, highlighting the urgency and need to conduct a comprehensive evaluation on the workings of government as well future policy and governance frameworks. According to the Complainants, the proposal was a clear call for overhauling the political system in Eritrea, introducing a constitutional order based on the adopted but unimplemented Constitution of Eritrea, 1997 and the election of new political leadership. 6. The Complainants additionally aver that the Victim in his proposal indicated that the ministry which he headed was being deliberately undermined, in an effort, he believed, was orchestrated by the President. The Complainants qver that the President responded by summarily dismissing the Victim from iUs ministerial position in August 2012.They claim that since then, the Victim had been living as a civilian. 7. The Complainants aver that following his dismissal, the Victim wrote a book entitled Eritrea Hagerey (Eritrea,flv!-Y Country), published in the United States of America, which is critical of the President. The Complainants allege that the publication of this book, which inter alia blames the President for the political crisis in the Respondent State and calls on Eritreans to struggle peacefully for democratic change in Eritrea, is one of two major reasons for the Victim's illegal detention. The second .being, ~.•.pre-recorded internet audio message, released before the inauguration of the book, in which the Victim repeated the core themes of the book and invited the President for a televised debate. 8. They claim that on 17 September 2018, a few days after the book was published, the Victim was approached by security agents of the Respondent State and taken to an undisclosed location. They assert that the Victim's whereabouts remain unknown and that no official account has been given of his predicament. They claim that he has not been brought before a court of law, nor allowed to contact his family, a doctor, or lawyer of his choice. The Complainants submit, therefore, that the Victim has been unlawfully detained and subjected to incommunicado ./ ,\\u, ..;,. ;"u 0 detention. ,,\ 1(,,;\1\11\1' '\. I il? ,c, ,0 <(<' "" u 5 ;.~ \ _j M O'gan of the .-:_' African ~/f" · \ ~\.' Uruon ~"l·Ji. I ~ ~ 0 0 ':t~ '~~7. The African Commission 0, um~ro~~ > • .eRfle~;,~J'pts §1S'~{I§ion :4"1'0504 fSl~g~~~:C Phone: (220) 230"4: Email: ~J' ~'} Nt; 't..~ 31 Bijllo Annex Layout. Kombo No (...0 ":> ~ au-baniul!a>a nca-union.ore https:/achpr,au,inVO 0 D