Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Journalists’ Trade Unions Association of Cabo Verde (AJOC) is holding a peaceful demonstration next Friday, in front of the Attorney General’s Office in the city of Praia, against attacks on journalists and freedom of the press in Cabo Verde.
The call of the AJOC’s national board is extended to journalists and friends of journalists, in order to stay together on Friday with the journalist from the A Nação newspaper Daniel Almeida who, together with this newspaper, were constituted defendants by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, having been served by the Attorney General’s Office to be heard.
AJOC states in its call that this order by the Attorney General’s Office comes after the Online Santiago Magazine and journalist Hermínio Silves were also constituted defendants.
“It is necessary to give a stop … today are these, but tomorrow may be others!” highlighted the AJOC in this letter, urging the participation of all, dressed in black T-shirts, from 2:30PM, in front of the Attorney General’s Office.
Before Daniel Almeida and A Nação Newspaper, journalist Hermínio Silves and the online newspaper Santiago Magazine were constituted defendants and accused of a crime of disobedience, in the investigation process on crime of breach of judicial secrecy opened by the Public Prosecutor’s Office”, in the Zezito Denti D’Oru case.
At issue is the publication on December 28 of last year, by the online newspaper Santiago Magazine, of the news entitled “Drug trafficking Public Prosecutor investigates Minister Paulo Rocha for murder” which reported that the Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the Minister of Internal Affairs, Paulo Rocha, for murder.
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