Mozambique: Cardoso Murder: RSF Reacts

Maputo — The Paris-based press freedom body Reporters sans Frontiers (RSF - Reporters without Borders) has welcomed the long prison sentences given by the Maputo City Court last Friday to the six men found guilty of murdering Mozambique's top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso.

"This case demonstrates that impunity is not something inevitable in Africa", declared RSF general secretary Robert Menard. "It is a question that depends on political will and on the independence of the judiciary".

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