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Reeyot Alemu is an Ethiopian journalist who served a 5-year prison sentence following an unfair trial in which anti-terrorism laws were used to silence her writing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Learn more about the 2012 awardees - Human Rights Watch )〕 She won the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Anti-Terrorism Decree Born from Power Thirst - Reeyot Alemu )〕 == Biography == Reeyot Alemu was born 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Imprisoned Ethiopian Journalist Win the 2013 UNESCO-World Press Freedom Prize )〕 She was a high school teacher until 2000, when she started working as a columnist for several local newspapers including the independent weekly newspaper ''Feteh''.〔 In 2010, she founded her own publishing house and became the editor in chief of her own monthly magazine called ''Change'', both of which were closed.〔 Alemu's articles covered social and political affairs as well as poverty and gender issues. In June 2011, she was arrested by Ethiopian authorities on charges of terrorism, for which she was convicted to 14 years of imprisonment and a fine of 33,000 birrs (USD 1,850).〔 ( Her fiance, Sileshi Hagos also arrested from Sept - Nov 2011 ) In August 2012, an appeals court subsequently reduced the 14-year prison sentence to 5 years and dropped most of the terrorism charges against her. She was serving a five-year term at Kality prison. Reeyot was released from Kaliti Prison on July 9, 2015 after serving four years. 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「Reeyot Alemu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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