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About Befeqadu Hailu
- Befeqadu Hailu Techanie also written as Befekadu Hailu Techane (Amharic: ???? ???; born 19 February 1980) is an Ethiopian writer, activist, and blogger.
- He is a member of the Zone 9 bloggers group that were arrested in April 2014 due to their blogging activities.
- Hailu is now released on bail and is defending himself before court on a downgraded charge of 'inciting violence through writing'. His novel, Children of their Parents (2013), won third place in the 2012 Burt Award for African Literature.
- In 2015, along with the other Zone 9 bloggers, he was awarded the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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