Mozambique: Cardoso Assassin Released

Maputo — One of the men who ordered the murder of Mozambique’s top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, in November 2000, former bank manager Vicente Ramaya, left prison a free man on Wednesday evening.

Ramaya was serving a sentence of 23 years and six months for the murder, but his lawyer, Abdul Gani, applied for his early release on the grounds of his “good behaviour” while in prison.

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