Meron Estefanos (born 6 January 1974) is a Swedish-Eritrean human rights activist and journalist. She first became known in the Eritrean refugee community in 2011 for helping people who had been kidnapped and tortured by human traffickers on their way to Israel in order to extort ransom money from their relatives, exemplified in the 2013 documentary film Sound of Torture. After the migrant and trafficking routes changed to Libya, her efforts continued and uncovered criminal networks reaching into Europe. As of 2022, Estefanos deplored that no traffickers had been brought to justice, with little interest from national governments and international organisations.
MeronEstefanos (born 6 January 1974) is a Swedish-Eritrean human rights activist and journalist. She first became known in the Eritrean refugee community...
Shayo which follows Eritrean radio host and human rights activist MeronEstefanos as she reports on Eritrean refugees who have been captured in Sudan...
U.S. Embassy in Eritrea. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2022. "MERONESTEFANOS, A CONVERSATION ON ERITREA WITH THOR HALVORSSEN, 18 min". OFFinJOBURG...
arrested in March 2020, tried and in 2021 found guilty in Ethiopia. MeronEstefanos, an Eritrean journalist predicted, that he would be able to bribe his...
"counterpart to the Eritrean state". In 2011, one of Asmarino's authors, MeronEstefanos, was threatened by Tedros Isaac with having her throat cut if she continued...
working as a reporter in Tunisia when he heard that refugee activist MeronEstefanos was investigating reports surrounding the ghost boat. She was looking...
report, This American Life reported on the experiences of journalist MeronEstefanos, who has helped publicize the kidnappings, and helped get some hostages...
In late 2013, the BBC reported the results of a study by activist MeronEstefanos and Dutch educators from Tilburg University. Among its conclusions:...
migrants in detention centres in Libya. The same year, journalists MeronEstefanos and Mirjam Van Reisen conducted interviews with Eritrean refugees who...
Society Review. 51 (2): 282–312. doi:10.1111/lasr.12269. ISSN 1540-5893. Estefanos, Meron; Mekonnen, Daniel Rezene (2011-11-30). "From Sawa to the Sinai Desert:...
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