Over the last weekend, the PFDJ security forces have rounded hundreds of youth from Asmara and Dekmehare, including from the surrounding villages, EPDP sources reported. The youth rounded up from Asmara and its environs have been taken to Karsheli (best known as Interrogation Centre #2 in Asmara) where they will be there on temporary basis until they are sent to their final assignments.

In a related development, under the guise of, “we need 30,000 workers to work in both Dankalia cement factory and in Bisha gold mine project”, the PFDJ regime is launching a new registration requirement for members of the two major religions in Eritrea. The policy also covers Administrative regions and districts across the country. Eritrean people are too familiar what lay behind the purpose of requiring registration of members of religious institutions and others. The policy targets the following groups:

1)      Under the new registration policy, both religions are instructed to register all employees, students, priests, and sheiks under their supervision and submit the list to government authorities.

2)      All Administrative regions and district authorities are instructed to collect the names of women who have not yet participated in the national service program and report the list to concerned government authorities.

The PFDJ regime is also relocating hundreds of non-political prisoners from various detention centers to Adi Abeto prison centre, a prison facility located in the outskirt of the capital city. The rounding ups of youth, collecting list of citizens, and relocating prisoners seem unrelated and unusual. But all are related, and maybe the PFDJ regime is trying to preempt any threat to its power.