Mozambique

(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. “Mabarwe” editor Sebastiao Canjera, […]

(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 […]

(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. The retrial will thus begin almost a full year […]

(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. According to a report in the 19 June edition of “Diário de Notícias”, Muianga and colleague Raul Senda were working on a story about an impending taxi fare increase […]

(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. According to STV, the journalists were stopped and asked […]

(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. The case is of great public […]

(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 […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 24 January 2005 CPJ press release: Fugitive in Cardoso murder returned to Mozambique New York, January 24, 2005 – A fugitive in the murder of investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso has been returned to Mozambique, where he faces a new trial in the November 2000 slaying. The Committee to Protect […]

(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. The ban came despite the movement’s regular complaints that TVM does not give it sufficient coverage. Both […]

(CJFE/IFEX) – The following is a 2 June 2004 CJFE media release: CJFE calls on Canadian government to return murderer of journalist to Mozambique. June 2 — Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) calls on the Canadian government to expedite the return of Mozambican criminal Anibal dos Santos Junior to prison in Mozambique. Dos Santos, […]

(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. Mondlane, who works for the independent Niassa newspaper “Faisca” and is also a correspondent for the Maputo weekly “Demos”, was arrested in the provincial capital, Lichinga, on orders of the […]

(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. “This is the second time that Anibalzinho has escaped […]

(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 […]

(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. The incident took place […]

(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. Stark, aged 38, has been working in Mozambique for about two years. Shortly before the assault, he was taking photographs of a […]

(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 […]