Radio Mozambique journalists receive death threats – NGO

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Radio Mozambique journalists receive death threats – NGO

7:45 CAT | 04 Dec 2018

Rádio Moçambique headquarters in Maputo. File photo: MMO

Unknown individuals have threatened to kill two Radio Mozambique journalists, the Mozambican delegate to the Southern African Social Communications Institute (MISA), a press freedom organisation, said yesterday.

The journalists were threatened when they were covering the re-run of the Marromeu municipal elections in the centre of the country on 22 November.

Radio Mozambique reported the incident to the district police command, who advised journalists to avoid going to the polling stations during the counting.

Radio Mozambique says that the threats came from members of the main opposition party, the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), who accused at least one journalist of favouring the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) party.

“MISA Mozambique condemns all kinds of threats to media professionals and advises political parties against seeing journalists as responsible for the results their parties achieve,” the organisation said.

“We hope the police will identify the individuals responsible and hold them accountable for their behaviour.”

Frelimo won the elections in Marromeu by a margin of 46 votes in a vote dubbed fraudulent by Renamo and various observers.

Source: AIM