English in which he was to announce a demonstration; • On June 14, five CIP agents visited the premises of the weekly Zambeze paper, with three court orders. Of the five agents, two entered the premises of the newspaper not only with the court orders, but also wielding pistol-type weapons. The other three remained outside the building. The two who entered the building presented the court orders to the Administrative Director, who asked the two journalists present to receive them. They read and signed the court orders, which instructed them to appear at the CIP offices at noon on the same day. It being the day when the newspaper edition was put to bed, they tried to request that the hearing be held the following day. The request was rejected by the CIP officers, who argued that the two should make statements on the same day as it was a case of “urgent matters”. The agents then asked the journalists to accompany them right there and then to the PIC offices, notwithstanding the fact that the court orders specified that they should report at 12 noon. The journalists went to make statements regarding articles published with the titles: “Zimbabwean soldiers ‘slaughtered’ in Gorongosa” and “FDS accused of stealing chickens in Vundúzi” [FDS = Defence and Security Forces]; • On 12 August 2016, Televisão de Moçambique (TVM) and Rádio Moçambique (RM) journalists were targeted in an attack carried out by unknown persons, who are believed to be Renamo armed men, in the town of Chiuala, in the district of Báruè, in Manica. Four people were wounded. The journalists were traveling in a convoy of cars escorted by the armed forces, from Chimoio to the Macossa district, to 62 So This is Democracy? 2016 cover a presidential visit; • 27 September, the Police of the Republic of Mozambique took the camera from the reporter of the Malacha newspaper as he attempted to take photos at the scene of the assassination of the Renamo political delegate in Moatize and member of the Tete Provincial Assembly; • October 8, journalist Arsénio Sebastião Macuene was arrested at the Balança police station in Dondo village, Sofala province, on charges of defaming a police officer. He was released only on November 11, after MISA-Mozambique intervened. The journalist was detained when he went to the police station with the intention of getting information on why his wife had been targeted by a police officer, who extorted 8,000 meticais from her; • On October 27, Cateme community radio in the province of Tete was the victim of a robbery in which computer equipment, microphones, a professional recorder, consoles, a digital camera and a motorcycle were stolen. • On October 29, the weekly Malacha, also published in Tete, had its offices vandalised. The criminals removed all computer hardware, two digital recorders, a camera and the newspaper’s digital archive, created in 2011. • On October 31, a group of five entered Rádio Dom Bosco, also located in Tete, but were unable to steal anything, thanks to the intervention of local security. • On 27 November, the journalist and director of the Diário da Zambézia newspaper, António Zefanias, received death threats from unknown people communicated by a telephone call made on the WhatsApp social network. The perpetrators of the threat told the journalist that they