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Escrivão José

Gender: Male
Online Journalist
  • Organisation: Hora H
  • Case: Attack
  • Culprit: Angolan authority
  • Country: Angola
  • City: Luanda

On June 17, Angolan judicial authorities charged Coque Mukuta, editor of privately owned news website O Decreto and a correspondent for the U.S. Congress-funded Voice of America, and Escrivão José, editor of privately owned newspaper Hora H, with criminal defamation after two ruling party officials filed separate complaints about their journalism, according to the journalists, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app. Mukuta said he was charged for an article he wrote in O Decreto.

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