human rights defender
Genet Asmamaw
Actions and Campaigns
Genet Asmamaw
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER
Organization affiliation
- Yegna Media
HRD's Gender
Woman
Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Economic, social and cultural rights
- Women's rights
HRD's geographical origin
Rural
Current Status
In prison (sentenced)
HRD's bio and work
Genet is a journalist by profession and has been reporting on human rights violations for years, including cases involving victims of massacres. She works for Yegna TV and was arrested at her workplace. During her detention, she was beaten and intimidated, with some of the abuse directed at her based on her gender.
Detained since
Apr 6, 2023
Charge(s)
- Other
- Terrorism
Latitude: 8.93052935229092
Longitude: 38.80560335870181
Geolocation of detention
Country or area of detention
Region of detention
- Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa
Location of detention - City/Town
Addis Ababa
Location of detention - Facility
Addis Ababa
Recent case update / evolution
Charged by prosecutor and bail denied
Any other relevant documents
Genet Asmamaw, CPJ Profile https://cpj.org/data/people/genet-asmamaw/
Attachments
Documented by
- Country(ies) of nationality
- HRD's Gender
- Woman
- Type of HRD
- Journalist/Blogger
- HRD's thematic area of engagement
- Civil and political rights
- Economic, social and cultural rights
- Women's rights
- Organization affiliation
- Yegna Media
- HRD's Picture
- HRD's bio and work
Genet is a journalist by profession and has been reporting on human rights violations for years, including cases involving victims of massacres. She works for Yegna TV and was arrested at her workplace. During her detention, she was beaten and intimidated, with some of the abuse directed at her based on her gender.
- HRD's geographical origin
- Rural
- Country or area of detention
- Region of detention
- Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Location of detention - City/Town
- Addis Ababa
- Location of detention - Facility
- Addis Ababa
- Geolocation of detention
Latitude: 8.93052935229092
Longitude: 38.80560335870181
- Geolocation of detention
- Detained since
- Apr 6, 2023
- Current Status
- In prison (sentenced)
- Charge(s)
- Other
- Terrorism
- Recent case update / evolution
Charged by prosecutor and bail denied
- Protection actions and campaigns
- Any other relevant documents
Genet Asmamaw, CPJ Profile https://cpj.org/data/people/genet-asmamaw/
- Documented by
- Consent status
- Consent to register, store and publish the information
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