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Alerts - Mozambique

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Mozambique

Police officers threaten to kill journalist

Victor Muvale was threatened after he wrote an article about a police assault on a young man who had been caught for failing to carry his identity card.

Mozambique

Parliament to debate freedom of information bill

MISA spent over three years in lengthy consultations, drafting a bill to establish the necessary procedures so that the right of the public to information becomes a reality.

Mozambique

Prominent journalist receives death threats

The threats follow the publication of an editorial written by Salomao Moyana in which he criticised the "political inconsistency" of Renamo party leader Afonso Dhlakama.

Mozambique

Journalists threatened, denied access to Renamo leader

Reporters who went to the former rebel movement leader's home to inquire about his health were forcefully turned away by his bodyguards.

Mozambique

Radio journalist beaten by opposition party supporters

Journalist Alfane Momade Antonio was attacked by supporters of Renamo, the country's main opposition party.

Mozambique

Newspaper editor's convicted murderer is behind bars again

RSF is relieved to learn that Anibal Dos Santos Junior, the fugitive killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso, has been recaptured in South Africa.

Mozambique

Police demand that journalist reveal sources

The Criminal Investigation Police in the province of Cabo Delgado are demanding that a journalist reveal his sources for a story which angered local military officers.

Mozambique

Journalist detained for one month, another journalist threatened by official over his reporting

(MISA/IFEX) - On 15 April 2009, MISA-Mozambique denounced the intimidation of two radio journalists in the northern province of Niassa, one of whom was illegally detained by the police. Felismino Jamissone is a producer for a community radio station in the Niassa district of Mecanhelas. He produces a programme on human rights, which has frequently interviewed Mecanhelas citizens who are severely critical of the police.

Mozambique

Journalist Bernardo Carlos receives death threats from provincial governor

(MISA/IFEX) - MISA-Mozambique has received reports that Tete provincial governor, Ildefonso Muananthat, has threatened journalist Bernardo Carlos with death in apparent anger over his reporting. Carlos is a journalist with the daily publication "Noticias".

Mozambique

Political party supporters attack journalists at gathering

(MISA/IFEX) - MISA-Mozambican has condemned the physical attacks on journalists that took place on 20 March 2009 in the Port city of Beira. The journalists were attacked by supporters of Renamo, the main opposition party, while covering a political gathering of defectors from Renamo who have since launched a rival opposition party called Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM.) Renamo militants set themselves upon the journalists during an altercation between MDM and Renamo as the new party was symbolically indicating its parting from Renamo by returning the Renamo party flags and other materials at the party's headquarters in the Munhava suburb. No serious injuries were recorded.

Mozambique

Government condemns attacks on press, identifies MISA as a strategic partner

(MISA/IFEX) - The Mozambican government "firmly and vehemently condemns all acts that attack press freedom," declared Deputy Education Minister Luis Covane on 12 March 2009, Mozambique's news agency AIM reports.

Mozambique

Contrary to reports, journalist Carlos Cardoso's killer still on the run

(RSF/IFEX) - Contrary to initial claims by the Mozambican police, Aníbal António dos Santos Junior, "Anibalzinho", the convicted killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso, was not recaptured after escaping from prison for the third time on 7 December 2008 and is still on the run.

Mozambique

Killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso re-arrested after third prison escape

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced relief at the re-arrest on 8 December 2008 of the killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso, 36 hours after he made his third escape from Maputo's high security prison.

Mozambique

Two journalists threatened by leaders of opposition party

(MISA/IFEX) - According to a report in the 17 October 2008 daily issue of "Noticias", two journalists based in Beira, Mozambique's second largest city, were threatened on 15 October by leaders of the opposition political party, Renamo. The two journalists, Moisés Saela and Francisco Raiva, work for Radio Mozambique and Stv, a local independent Mozambican television station, respectively.

Mozambique

Three journalists convicted of threatening state security over article questioning prime minister's citizenship

(MISA/IFEX) - Three journalists working for "Zambeze" newspaper, an independent publication, charged for allegedly defaming the Prime Minister of Mozambique, Luísa Diogo, and of threatening state security, have been sentenced to 6 months in prison, converted to a monetary fine of 30 Mozambican Meticais (US$1.20). The ruling was made on 29 August 2008.

Mozambique

Three journalists charged with threatening state security over article questioning prime minister's citizenship

(MISA/IFEX) - On Monday 21 July 2008, the 3rd Section of the Maputo Judicial Court postponed the trial of three "Zambeze" journalists. "Zambeze" is one of the biggest independent weeklies in Mozambique. The three are accused of threatening state security, after they wrote an article in which they questioned whether the Prime Minister of Mozambique, Luísa Diogo, was Mozambican or Portuguese. The trial has been postponed to 12 August following a request by the Prosecution Authority, which said its representative in that case was not available.

Mozambique

Head of football club assaults photojournalist

(MISA/IFEX) - The Mozambican chapter of the regional press freedom body MISA has denounced a physical assault by a leading sports figure against a photojournalist.

Mozambique

Supreme Court rules public right to information justifies live coverage of journalist Cardoso's murder trial

(MISA/IFEX) - The Mozambican chapter of MISA welcomes the decision by the Supreme Court to reject the appeals made by the six men who were found guilty in January 2003 of the murder of the country's top investigative reporter, Carlos Cardoso.

Mozambique

Court upholds conviction of journalist Carlos Cardoso's killers

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 16 February 2007 CPJ press release:

Mozambique

Press law under review

(MISA/IFEX) - The first phase of reviewing Mozambique's 1991 press law, long regarded as one of the most enlightened pieces of media legislation in the world, concluded on 15 September 2006, announced the director of the government press office (GABINFO), Felisberto Tinga.

Mozambique

Three journalists released after being detained on criminal libel charges

(MISA/IFEX) - Editor Sebastiao Canjera, news editor Joao Mascarenhas, and reporter Pateque Francisco, of the community newspaper "Mabarwe", all of whom had been detained on criminal libel charges since 3 May 2006, were released on 10 May.

Mozambique

Businessman Nyimpine Chissano charged in murder of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso

(MISA/IFEX) - The Mozambican public prosecutor's office has charged businessman Nyimpine Chissano, eldest son of former President Joaquim Chissano, in the November 2000 murder of Mozambique's top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso.

Mozambique

Editor and two journalists accused of defaming businessman, arrested and held in detention

(MISA/IFEX) - On 3 May 2006, the editor and two journalists of the community newspaper "Mabarwe", published in Mozambique's Barue district, were arrested following a complaint from a local businessman that the newspaper had defamed him. The media workers are still in custody and MISA-Mozambique is attempting to secure their release.

Mozambique

Journalist's killer gets 30-year prison sentence but mysteries remain

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders welcomed the 30-year jail sentence passed on 20 January 2006 to Anibal Antonio dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), for leading the commando that gunned down journalist Carlos Cardoso in 2000. But it said many questions remained and called for an investigation of claims by his accomplices that ex-President Joaquim Chissano's son Nyimpine had been involved, and also for an enquiry into Anibalzinho's two escapes from prison since the murder.

Mozambique

Retrial of accused Cardoso murderer set for December

(MISA/IFEX) - The tenth section of the Maputo City Court has finally set a date, December 1, 2005, for the retrial of Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"), the man who led the death squad that murdered Mozambique's top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, on November 22, 2000.

Mozambique

Journalists assaulted, equipment confiscated

(MISA/IFEX) - On 28 June 2005, "Zambeze" weekly newspaper photojournalist Luis Muianga was brutally beaten by a group of municipal police while working in downtown Maputo.

Mozambique

Reporters attacked, equipment seized

(MISA/IFEX) - On 13 April 2005, two camerapersons from the privately-owned Mozambican television channel STV were beaten up and had their equipment seized by a group of guards from a private security firm. The media workers were filming randomly in the streets of the capital, Maputo.

Mozambique

Media barred from covering libel trial

(MISA/IFEX) - On 28 March 2005, the Maputo City Court's eighth section, in an unprecedented move, decided to bar the media from covering a libel case involving one of six men sentenced to long prison terms in January 2003 for the murder of Mozambique's foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso.

Mozambique

Journalist kidnapped, threatened with death

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has called on the Mozambican authorities to protect Jeremias Langa, news director of the privately-owned television station Soico TV (STV). On 27 January 2005, the journalist was kidnapped at gunpoint in Maputo. He was held briefly and threatened with "the same fate as journalist Carlos Cardoso if [he] continued to talk too much." Cardoso was killed in 2000.

Mozambique

Fugitive in Cardoso murder returned to Mozambique

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 24 January 2005 CPJ press release:

Mozambique

RENAMO bans television crew from filming election campaigns

(MISA/IFEX) - On 6 November 2004, local officials of Mozambique's former rebel movement, Resistencia Nacional de Mozambique (RENAMO), banned a TVM public television station crew from filming RENAMO election campaigning in two northern towns, Mozambique Island and Nacala.

Canada / Mozambique

CJFE calls on Canadian government to return journalist's murderer to Mozambique

(CJFE/IFEX) - The following is a 2 June 2004 CJFE media release:

Mozambique

Journalist detained and released

(MISA/IFEX) - MISA-Mozambique and the Mozambique journalists' union's (SNJ) Niassa branch have condemned the 15 May 2004 detention for 10 hours of reporter Fabiao Mondlane.

Mozambique

Authorities' complicity suspected as killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso escapes from prison

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has expressed shock over police reports of Anibal Antonio dos Santos' escape, on 10 May 2004, from Maputo's high security prison. Dos Santos, also known as "Anibalzinho", had been serving a 28-year sentence since January 2003 for the murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso.

Mozambique

Three years after Carlos Cardoso's murder, the identity of all those involved is still unknown

(RSF/IFEX) - Carlos Cardoso, Mozambique's most famous journalist, was gunned down on a Maputo street on 22 November 2000. Three years later, the identity of all the persons involved in his death is still unknown, even though six people were convicted in an exemplary trial. At least one of the instigators behind the contract killing is still at large. This is the main conclusion of a report issued by RSF on 21 November 2003.

Mozambique

Journalist detained and interrogated

(MISA/IFEX) - During the weekend of 8 to 9 November 2003, Radio Mozambique journalist Salvador Januario was detained by members and sympathisers of Mozambique's former rebel movement, the Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana (RENAMO). Januario was held captive for several hours at the local RENAMO offices in the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

Mozambique

German journalist threatened and assaulted, equipment confiscated

(MISA/IFEX) - On 3 November 2003, freelance German journalist Fritz Stark was threatened, assaulted and had his equipment confiscated by unknown assailants in Quelimane, the capital of Zambézia province, in Mozambique's central region.

Mozambique

Journalist attacked

(MISA/IFEX) - On 15 October 2003, Fernando Manuel, a senior journalist with "Savana" newspaper, was brutally assaulted by a youth. His assailant apparently felt offended by an article written by the journalist and published in the 10 October edition of "Savana". Manuel sustained extensive injuries to his face and head and is currently receiving medical care at Maputo central hospital.

Mozambique

Journalists harassed, censored

(MISA/IFEX) - On 7 October 2003, TVM (Mozambique Television) journalist Hermínio Nhanombe and Ruben Jossai, of "Savana" newspaper, were threatened and harassed by the bodyguard of Afonso Dlakhama, leader of the opposition Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana (RENAMO). The journalists were covering a political gathering in the Vilankulos district, in southern Mozambique.

Mozambique

Journalist assaulted

(MISA/IFEX) - On 8 October 2003, Anteje Buanar, chairperson of the União Desportiva de Sanjala football club, attacked Luis Dionisio, a sports journalist with the provincial station Radio Mozambique (RM-EP), in the northwestern province of Niassa. Buanar also attempted to confiscate the journalist's equipment.

Mozambique

Supreme Court president sues weekly newspaper

Mozambique

Suspects in Cardoso trial sentenced to lengthy prison terms

Mozambique

CPJ representative to attend verdict announcement in Cardoso trial

Mozambique

Former colleagues of murdered journalist Carlos Cardoso testify

Mozambique

CPJ launches special web coverage of Cardoso murder trial

Mozambique

President's son to be interrogated about journalist's murder

Mozambique

First lady denies intimidating journalists

Mozambique

CPJ alarmed about case of murdered journalist; delivery of chickens seen as threat to reporters

Mozambique

Suspect in murder of journalist Carlos Cardoso escapes from top security jail

Mozambique

CPJ releases special report on murder of leading investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso

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