Journalists Imprisoned in 2017 - Ghebrehiwet Keleta
| Publisher | Committee to Protect Journalists |
| Publication Date | 31 December 2017 |
| Cite as | Committee to Protect Journalists, Journalists Imprisoned in 2017 - Ghebrehiwet Keleta, 31 December 2017, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/5a5c93ea4.html [accessed 5 June 2023] |
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Tsigenay | Imprisoned in Eritrea | June 01, 2000
| Job: | Print Reporter |
| Medium: | |
| Beats Covered: | Politics |
| Gender: | Male |
| Local or Foreign: | Local |
| Freelance: | No |
| Charge: | No charge |
| Length of Sentence: | Not Sentenced |
| Reported Health Problems: | No |
Security agents arrested Ghebrehiwet, a reporter for the now-defunct privately owned weekly Tsigenay, while he was on his way to work. He has not been heard from since. Sources told CPJ at the time that Ghebrehiwet was being held in connection with the government's overall crackdown on the press.
CPJ listed Ghebrehiwet on its annual prison list until 2010, when exiled journalists told the organization that Ghebrehiwet may have been released. But in 2013, one of Ghebrehiwet's children, who had fled Eritrea, said Ghebrehiwet was still in custody, according to another exiled journalist who spoke to CPJ.
The journalist's relative told CPJ in 2014 that Ghebrehiwet was still in prison.
In October 2017, CPJ wrote to Eritrea's information ministry requesting updates on the health and location of Ghebrehiwet and all other imprisoned journalists. Paulos Netabay, director of the state-owed Eritrean News Agency, responded to CPJ's emails on behalf of the information ministry and declined to comment on the specific case of Ghebrehiwet, saying the health and location of specific journalists were "matters that concern the police or prison authorities." He did not answer additional emails from CPJ requesting referral to the appropriate authorities to respond to these questions. CPJ's attempts to reach these authorities independently were unsuccessful.
