Serkalem Fasil (Amharic: ሰርካለም ፋሲል; born c. 1978)[1] is an Ethiopian journalist and former co-publisher of the newspapers Asqual, Menilik, and Satenaw.
The following year, at the age of twenty, she founded her own newspaper, Menilik, put out by her own publishing house.
[1] In November 2005, Fasil was arrested along with thirteen other reporters, including her husband, Eskinder Nega,[2][3] after publishing articles critical of the Ethiopian government's actions during the May 2005 parliamentary elections.
Fasil and her co-defendants were charged with "treason, outrages against the Constitution and incitement to armed conspiracy".
[3] Fasil won a "Courage in Journalism Award" from the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation) in 2007.