Idris Abba Arre, Tsigenay
Medium:Print
Charge:No Charge
Imprisoned:September 2001

Idris was a contributor to the government-run Arabic daily newspaper Eritrea al-Haditha, according to an August 2015 report by the Guardian. He later wrote for the private weekly Tsigenay and worked as a reporter at the Eritrean Ministry of Education. In either August or September 2001, Idris wrote an article in Tsigenay that criticized the government's education policy, according to Eritrean journalists in exile. The journalists said he was arrested because of the article.

Authorities arrested Idris in October 2001, news reports said. Idris did not appear on CPJ's census of imprisoned journalists before 2014. His case came to the organization's attention only in 2014, as part of a fresh investigation into the status of long-held prisoners in Eritrea.

Authorities have not disclosed Idris' whereabouts or any charges against him, and the state of his health is unknown. He has a wife and daughter.

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