Angolan Journalist Indicted For Exposing Government Corruption

By Editors - June 22, 2017 Leave a Comment

Angolan Journalist Indicted

Angola journalist Rafael Marques de Morais – link

Rafael Marques, winner of 2017 NED Democracy Award returns home to legal harassment

Winner of 2017 NED Democracy Award returns home to legal harassment The Office of the Attorney General in Angola indicted award-winning investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais for “outrage to a body of sovereignty and injury against public authority,” under the Law on Crimes against the State Security. In an article published on his anti-corruption watchdog…

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