Angola: Journalist Feels Vindicated After Years of Exposing Corruption

In 1999, Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais wrote an article titled “The Lipstick of Dictatorship” in which he denounced then-President José Eduardo dos Santos as corrupt. For his writing, he was arrested, held in solitary confinement, denied food and charged with defamation.

“I was jailed for that, went on trial for that, and went through hell for exposing corruption at the presidential level,” he told VOA.

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