Theodros Aregas Exile Blog

Theodros Aregas Exile Blog


The journalist Theodros Arega from Ethiopia is blogging about his life and his situation as an undocumented immigrant in Sweden. He first came to Sweden in 2004 and was denied asylum a few years later. Here you can follow his fight for freedom and the right to express himself without being censored.

27 februari 2013

Homeless person walks almost all night

It was Sunday afternoon.
15 februari 2013

Destroy a Refugee's camera, no problem Sir!

  Soon it'll be eight years since I was forced to leave all that I've built all my life – my career, family, friends and above all my beloved country – due to an unfortunate incident, in order to "live" in Sweden.
8 januari 2013

Thanks to Global Reporting I Owe My Brother $100

Hello everyone! I'm back and I hope you had a happy holiday. I wish you all a very happy New Year and here is my first piece for 2013. I still don't know if it is excitement, shock or both, why it took me this long to write this piece (it is really a weird feeling which I can't describe).
7 mars 2013

"I have no plan B"

That's what Armenian asylum seeking painter and activist Narek Aghajanyan told me at the opening of his 8th exhibition, held last week at a small pizzeria located outside of  Gävle, when I asked him what he would do if the Swedish Migration Board rejects the new asylum request he made after his second child was born one month ago.
15 februari 2013

Help! Sweden is deporting Ethiopian journalists

I can't even explain how I feel right now, I'm just messed up after I heard this ugly news from a journalist of the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter that the Swedish Migration Board is planning to deport Ethiopian asylum seeking journalists tomorrow (yesterday) to where the Swedish people in particular and the world in general fought aggressively for fourteen months to bring back
5 februari 2013

Are Eritreans really fed-up with their one time “hero”?

After an alleged failed coup d’état attempt on 21st of January 2013 at the Eritrean Ministry of Information, which resulted in the newspaper the National to be offline for one day, a series of raids and storming of Eritrean embassies in Europe have become a common scene.