Eswatini: Trials Politically Motivated - Amnesty

Amnesty International has highlighted the case of two journalists jailed in Swaziland for writing articles critical of the kingdom's judiciary to demonstrate an 'upsurge in politically motivated trials and the use of laws which violate the principle of legality to suppress dissent' over the past year.

Amnesty, in its annual report just published, said that in July 2014 Bheki Makhubu, editor of the monthly news magazine the Nation, and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko were sentenced by the High Court to two years in prison for contempt of court 'after a grossly unfair trial'.

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