Christina Anyanwu
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Christina Anyanwu (b. 1951 in Ahiara in Imo State) is a Nigerian journalist.
In May 1995, while working as the editor-in-chief of the Lagos-based The Sunday Magazine, she was arrested following the publication of a story about a failed coup d'état against the government of Sani Abacha on 1 March. She was prosecuted in camera by a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 July 1995, reduced to 15 years in October of that year. While being held in deplorable conditions in Kaduna prison, she contracted malaria and lost her left eye.
In 1997, the Committee to Protect Journalists named Anyanwu a winner of the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards.
On 3 May 1998 she was awarded UNESCO's Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize; she was released from prison the following June.
In the April 2007 general election, she was elected to the Senate, representing the Owerri district for the People's Democratic Party.
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The first version of this article was translated and adapted from the corresponding article on the French-language Wikipedia.
