She was born in 1951 in Ahiara (Nigeria). She studied journalism in the United States. She returned to her country to practise her profession and nowadays she’s a great journalist.
In 1995, when she was the publisher and editor in chief of an independent paper“The Sunday Magazine”, she was arrested following the publication of an article about an attempted coup against the Nigerian government. She was condemned to life imprisonment by a special military tribunal in a trial held behind closed doors on July 4, 1995. National and International Human Rights groups pressured and the sentence was reduced to 15 years. The conditions in prison were deplorable. She went partially blind and she didn’t receive medical attention.
Also, in 1995, she was awarded the International Women’s Media Foundation.
In 1997, the Committee to Protect Journalists named Anyanwu winner of the CPJ International Press Fredom Awards.
In 1998, she received the UNESCO’s Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. In june of this year she regained her freedom.
Since she went out of prison, she continues fighting for press freedom. She wrote "Out of Prison - And Back to Face the Montain".
In 1995, when she was the publisher and editor in chief of an independent paper“The Sunday Magazine”, she was arrested following the publication of an article about an attempted coup against the Nigerian government. She was condemned to life imprisonment by a special military tribunal in a trial held behind closed doors on July 4, 1995. National and International Human Rights groups pressured and the sentence was reduced to 15 years. The conditions in prison were deplorable. She went partially blind and she didn’t receive medical attention.
Also, in 1995, she was awarded the International Women’s Media Foundation.
In 1997, the Committee to Protect Journalists named Anyanwu winner of the CPJ International Press Fredom Awards.
In 1998, she received the UNESCO’s Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. In june of this year she regained her freedom.
Since she went out of prison, she continues fighting for press freedom. She wrote "Out of Prison - And Back to Face the Montain".
In the general election in 2007, she was on the Platform of the People’s Democratic Party, and was elected to the Senate; as a representative of Owerri Zone, Imo State, Nigeria.
In my opinion I think that every journalist can write and publish the truth of anything; that is the press freedom. Sometimes they risk their life doing this job.The arrest of a journalist has never resolved problems or derreted events. Not only Christina Anyanwu was in prison for this cause, we have to fight against these detentions because they’ve just looked for the truth.
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