Angola: Free Journalist Jailed for Reporting on Judge

(New York) – Angolan authorities should immediately quash the conviction of a Voice of America journalist who was convicted after an unfair trial for stories critical of a local judge, Human Rights Watch said today. Armando Chicoca was sentenced on March 3, 2011, to one year in prison for criminal defamation against a judge in the coastal city of Namibe.

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