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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
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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

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