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Graca Campos

Gender: Female
Print Journalist
  • Organisation: Angolense
  • Case: Imprisonment
  • Culprit: police officers
  • Country: Angola
  • City: Launda

On April 11, a Luanda court convicted Graca Campos, a news editor at the Luanda-based weekly Angolense and sentenced her to four month jail term. The official, Kwanza-Norte provincial governor Manuel Pedro Pakavira, claimed to have been defamed by a series of articles published in Angolense in 1998 and 1999. The articles had alleged that Pakavira was incompetent and called for his dismissal.

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