- Organisation: A Nação,
- Case: Threat
- Culprit: Authorities in Cape Verde
- Country: Cape Verde
- City: Praia
On February 4, officials at the Attorney General’s office in Praia, the capital, questioned and named reporter Daniel Almeida and director Alexandre Semedo, both of privately owned newspaper A Nação, as formal suspects for allegedly disclosing confidential judicial information in news reports about police abuse, also relating to the 2014 case, according to the journalists and their lawyer Mário Marques, who spoke to CPJ by phone and messaging app, and news reports. The investigation followed the publication of two articles, written by Silves and Almeida and published in the respective publications on December 28, 2021, and January 12, 2022, containing allegations that Paulo Rocha, the current minister of internal administration, was allegedly at the scene of a 2014 shooting that ended in the death of the suspect, in his then-capacity as deputy director of the judicial police, according to the journalists, Marques, and news reports.