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Fesshaye Yohannes (born c. 1955, death year unknown) was an Eritrean journalist who founded the weekly journal ''Setit'' and was a recipient of the Committee to Protect Journalists' 2002 International Press Freedom Award. Fesshaye was imprisoned without charges in September 2001, and died in government custody. Fesshaye became a journalist in the early 1990s, after Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia.〔 Previously, he had been a member of the guerrilla movement fighting for Eritrean independence in the Eritrean War of Independence. In 1994, he founded the weekly journal ''Setit'', one of the country's first independent newspapers, named for the only Eritrean river to have water all year.〔 ''Setit'' soon gained the largest circulation in Eritrea.〔 The journal covered difficult and controversial topics, including poverty, prostitution, and the lack of resources for handicapped veterans of the Eritrean independence movement.〔 In addition to his journalism, Fesshaye also worked as a playwright. ''Setit'' Fesshaye was arrested and imprisoned. In May 2002, he and nine other imprisoned journalists began a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment, and were transferred to a secret jail at an unknown location where they had no contact with the outside world. The date of Fesshaye's death is disputed. While some sources state that he died on January 11, 2007 following a prolonged illness, exiled opposition party leader Adhanom Gebremariam reported that Fesshaye was found dead in his cell on December 13, 2002.〔 ==See also== *Dawit Isaak, another imprisoned ''Setit'' journalist 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fesshaye Yohannes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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