Botswana 2014 violations & victories 3 April Journalist Metlhaetsile Leepile wins long running defamation case against a Francistown High court Judge Justice Mpaphi Phumaphi. 30 June High court orders Weekly broadsheet, The Sunday Standard not to publish verbatim extracts from interviews conducted by the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) with Director of Intelligence Services (DIS) Chief Mr Isaac Kgosi, until the case is heard on 14 July. 8 September Sunday Standard editor arrested Outsa Mokone arrested and detained on charges of “seditious intention.” He was released on appeal the next day. 12 September Sunday standard senior reporter Edgar Tsimane fled Botswana to South Africa in fear of his safety after security agents harassed him for writing a series of stories about the government. 22 April Botswana Parliament passes law allowing eletronic communications to be used as evidence in court. 5 August The Voice Newspaper Journalist Chenjelani Baraedi attacked by prison officer for taking photographs of a man accused of raping two women in Francistown. 5 August Tuesday 5 August 2014. Dikgang Publishing Company (DPC) publishers of Mmegi and Monitor newspapers in court over defamation case filed by former managing Director of Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) Maria Nthebolan, regarding articles published between 2008 and 2011 about alleged corruption. 16 December Botswana Government threatens to use advertising as a weapon against the private media.