Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Journalists’ Trade Unions Association of Cabo Verde (AJOC) sent Friday, the 28th, a letter to international press freedom organizations denouncing what it considers a “serious attack” on press freedom in Cabo Verde.
The letter addressed to the International Federation of Journalists (FIJ), Reporters Without Borders of Freedom House and the Portuguese-speaking Journalists Federation and shared with the national press, has to do, above all, with the fact that the journalist and the online newspaper Santiago Magazine were constituted defendants in an investigation on crime of breach of judicial secrecy.
“First time, in almost 50 years of national independence (July 5, 1975), a journalist and a press agency were constituted defendants and accused of a crime of disobedience, in an investigation process on crime of breach of judicial secrecy opened by the Public Prosecutor’s Office”, stressed the union.
“The case relates to investigations of the citizen’s death by Judicial Police officers in 2014, under abnormal situations and contrary to the law and the rule of democratic law,” he explained,” quoting the news entitled “Narcotrafficking Prosecutors investigates Minister Paulo Rocha for murder”, published on December 28, 2021.
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