Mozambique: Academic and Journalist in the Dock Over Facebook Post

2 September 2015
analysis

A Mozambican academic and editor faced trial for allegedly libelling former president Guebuza. The prosecution did not present a single witness.

Prominent Mozambican economist Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco on Monday told a Maputo court that a Facebook post he wrote in November 2012 was intended as part of a political debate on the problems the country faced, and not an attack on the honour and dignity of the then president, Armando Guebuza.

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