Aster Yohannes is a veteran of Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and an independence activist.
During her second year of graduation, she joined the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in 1979.
Back home, in an initiative named G-15, Solomon along with 15 other ministers were arrested by the ruling front and detained in unknown location ever since.
The ministers were criticizing the border war of the then president, Isaia and signed an open letter.
[3] On account of the political situation in Eritrea, she obtained visa for her children from the US and sought the Eritrean government to grant them exit to the US.
She had returned to Eritrea with a newly issued Eritrean passport, to be with her four children aged between 6 and 13 at the time of her arrest.