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Journalist Million Beyene Missing Amidst Media Repression in Ethiopia

4/18/2026

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Million Beyene, Addis Standard managing editor, has been missing for nearly 48 hours after being taken by unidentified individuals in Addis Ababa.
His family and colleagues are increasingly distressed and urge authorities to locate him.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm and described the incident as a troubling escalation in media repression in Ethiopia.
Law enforcement says they do not hold Beyene and that the abductors are not police.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has been urged to investigate this possible enforced disappearance.

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Story summary

Million Beyene, Addis Standard managing editor, has been missing for nearly 48 hours after being taken by unidentified individuals in Addis Ababa.
His family and colleagues are increasingly distressed and urge authorities to locate him.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm and described the incident as a troubling escalation in media repression in Ethiopia.
Law enforcement says they do not hold Beyene and that the abductors are not police.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has been urged to investigate this possible enforced disappearance.