Beyene, reporter for the independent weekly MeQaleh, and Haile, a journalist at the pro-government Haddas Eritrea, were arrested some time in the fall of 2001 and have been missing since. CPJ was unable to confirm the reasons for their arrests, but Eritrean sources believe that the detention of the journalists is part of the government’s general crackdown on the press, which began in September 2001.