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Mozambique: Future press law under debate in Maputo
3:32 CAT | 12 Nov 2020
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Mozambican journalists and lawyers are today at 3h30 p.m. debating the new media sector law in a seminar promoted by the Southern African Social Communication Institute in Mozambique (MISA-Mozambique).
The current Press Law, in force in Mozambique since 1991, will be repealed by the Social Communication Law, an instrument that has yet to be approved by parliament.
The draft Social Communication Law proposes the introduction of a mandatory professional card and defines new principles and rules for the exercise of journalism, Council of Ministers spokesman Filimião Swazi announced.
“The Press Law was approved in a different context [in 1991], and today we have new ways of disseminating news. It was therefore necessary to update the legislation,” he said, without adding further details.
Today’s seminar has a question for its title: “The New Press Law in Mozambique: More Freedom and Independence for the Media?”
The seminar will feature speakers Tomás Vieira Mário, journalist and chairperson of the Superior Council for Social Communication (CSCS) of Mozambique; Ericino de Salema, journalist, lawyer and director in Mozambique of the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA); Célia Claudina, journalist and executive director of Rede de Comunicadores Amigos da Criança (Recac); and João Nhampossa, lawyer and human rights activist.
Source: Lusa
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