human rights defender
Yonas Amare
© The Reporter Ethiopia
Yonas Amare
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
HRD's Gender
Man
Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Economic, social and cultural rights
- Fight against corruption
- Fight against impunity
HRD's geographical origin
Urban
Current Status
Released
HRD's bio and work
Yonas Amare is a journalist at the privately owned independent "The Reporter Ethiopia" magazine. He is a senior editor of the magazine and is known for his hard-hitting reporting on sensitive topics, including merit-based civil service reforms, the role of political elites in addressing national crises and human rights issues.
Detained since
Aug 13, 2025
Date of release
Aug 22, 2025
Latitude: 9.017201218081322
Longitude: 38.77075195312501
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa
Recent case update / evolution
The journalist was released after 10 days of secret detention
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- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's Gender
- Man
- Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Economic, social and cultural rights
- Fight against corruption
- Fight against impunity
- HRD's Picture
- Copyright
- The Reporter Ethiopia
- HRD's bio and work
Yonas Amare is a journalist at the privately owned independent "The Reporter Ethiopia" magazine. He is a senior editor of the magazine and is known for his hard-hitting reporting on sensitive topics, including merit-based civil service reforms, the role of political elites in addressing national crises and human rights issues.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Urban
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Addis Ababa
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 9.017201218081322
Longitude: 38.77075195312501
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Aug 13, 2025
- Current Status
- Released
- Date of release
- Aug 22, 2025
- Recent case update / evolution
The journalist was released after 10 days of secret detention
- Allegations / reports of ill-treatment
Enforced disappearance, secret detention and deprivation of due process of law.
- Documented by
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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