Angolan Regime Lays 11 Charges against Journalist The journalist and human rights defender Rafael Marques de Morais has been summoned for questioning on Tuesday 23 July by Angola’s National Directorate of Investigation and Penal Action (DNIAP), for a record total of eleven charges brought against him simultaneously. The Angolan summons comes shortly on the heels of a Portuguese court clearing Marques of all defamation charges earlier this year, brought by a group of Angolan generals who were named in serious human rights abuses in pursuit of diamond mining concessions. By lodging a new criminal complaint against Marques, the Angolan judicial authorities however seek to re-open the case the generals had lost in Portugal, thereby ignoring the universal legal concept of double jeopardy.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:02:54 +0000
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