Alexandre Semedo

Gender: Male
Print Journalist

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 three journalists were declared “arguidos,” a status unique to Portuguese legal systems in which people become formal suspects in the commission of a crime, and which can be a preliminary step to arrest or a formal charge, according to Fernandes. Under this declaration, the journalists and their outlets are barred from reporting on the investigation into alleged police abuses or risk a charge of contempt if they do.

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