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From Wikileaks

Today's featured truth teller - Christina Anyanwu

Investigating attempted coup in Nigeria.

Anywanwu is a journalist, publisher and editor in chief of The Sunday Magazine in Lagos. She was arrested following the publication of an article about an attempted coup against the Nigerian government on March 1, 1995, and was condemned to life imprisonment by a special military tribunal in a trial held behind closed doors on July 4, 1995. Her sentence was commuted to 15 years on October 10, 1995. Her trial was marked by numerous irregularities. She was denied the right of appeal. Christina Anyanwu is one of four journalists held in detention since the attempted coup in her country where infringements of the rights of the journalists and freedom of the press are innumerable.

• http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5706&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
• http://www.cpj.org/awards97/christin.html