# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/meron-estefanos
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:06:30.283Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/meron-estefanos"
name: "Meron Estefanos"
slug: "meron-estefanos"
description: "Meron Estefanos is a Swedish-Eritrean human rights activist and journalist. She first became known in the Eritrean refugee community in 2011 for helping people who had been kidnapped and tortured by human traffickers on their way to Israel in order to extort ransom money from their relatives, exemplified in the 2013 documentary film Sound of Torture. After the migrant and trafficking routes changed to Libya, her efforts continued and uncovered criminal networks reaching into Europe. As of 2022, Estefanos deplored that no traffickers had been brought to justice, with little interest from national governments and international organisations."
tagline: "Swedish journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Meron_Estefanos_in_2014_-2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1974-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.01
  momentum:             19.11764705882353
  historical:           4.60432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/meronina"
    handle:    "meronina"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/meronina/"
    handle:    "meronina"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meron_Estefanos"
    title: "Meron Estefanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meron_Estefanos"
    title: "Meron Estefanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meron_Estefanos"
    title: "Meron Estefanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meron_Estefanos"
    title: "Meron Estefanos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Meron_Estefanos"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20156094"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump