Ruth Simon

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Ruth Simon, an Eritrean former correspondent for AFP, was arrested April 1997 and later released in 1999, for her role in reporting incidents involving Eritreans in Sudan. It was reportedly taken as defamation by the president. The president is said to ordered her detention personally.^{[citation needed]}

Ruth Simon was also awarded a CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 1998, one of the two Eritreans to receive the award.