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Terara Network

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Terara Network
Company typeNews media
Founded26 September 2020
FounderTamerat Negera
HeadquartersAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
Key people
Tamerat Negera (CEO) Clive Stephany (Project Manager)
Websiteteraranetwork.com

Terara Network is an Ethiopian media company based in Addis Ababa. The company's main journalist who is the owner of the company is Tamerat Negera. The company was established on 26 September 2020, by Tamerat Negera through the charity funds raised by his friend Tariku Geleta.[1][2][3]

Troubles

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The company's most senior member Temerat Negera who serves both as editor in chief and CEO of the company has had trouble with law enforcement in the past where the government has arrested him for over 4 months without any charges laid against him. Two other Terare Network journalists were also arrested by Ethiopian police forces.[4][5][6][7][8]

Release

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The company's chief editor and founder Tamerat Negera was able to be released by bail by the order of the Supreme Court of Oromia after over 3 months of arrest without charge.[9][10]

References

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  1. ^ "Get To Known Us - Wine - TERARA NETWORK". Terara Network.
  2. ^ "News: Police detain Terara Network founder and editor-in-chief Tamerat Negera". Addis Standard. December 10, 2021.
  3. ^ "Ethiopian Prime Minster tries to undermine the arrest of 20 journalists in the country". The Low Ethiopian Reports.
  4. ^ "Tamrat Negera: A journalist still jailed for more than three months without charges". Addis Zeybe. March 25, 2022.
  5. ^ "Continued detentions unlawful and remand after lifting of state of emergency unreasonable". Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. February 17, 2022.
  6. ^ "Ethiopia uses emergency law to ramp up arrests of journalists". CPJ. December 15, 2021.
  7. ^ "Ethiopia: Police Detain Terara Network Founder and Editor-in-Chief Tamerat Negera". All Africa.
  8. ^ "Ethiopia pursues charges against three detained journalists". Foreign Press. February 21, 2022.
  9. ^ "Oromia Supreme Court orders release of journalist Tamerat Negera on bail". Zehabesha. April 5, 2022.
  10. ^ "Tamrat Negera released on bail after four months behind bars". Borkena. April 5, 2022.