to stifle/coerce/silence the voice of the media. The media has a rightful duty to investigate and report ably on matters of public interest. The public has a right to know. $OHUW Date: November 29, 2012 Person/ institution: Windhoek Observer Violation/ issue: Threatened The leadership of the Swapo Party Youth League threatened to kick out the editor of the Windhoek Observer, Kuvee Kangueehi, from its media conference at the Swapo Party headquarters in Windhoek recently. Local newspapers reported that, an argument started between Kangueehi and Job Amupanda, the youth wing’s spokesperson, after SPYL secretary Elijah Ngurare had charged that some newspapers “spice up” news reports to suit their agendas. Ngurare singled out Kangueehi and reporter Diana Ndimbira for “spicing up stories”. He charged that the youth wing had been called “all sorts of names” in newspaper articles. Kangueehi advised that saying that instead of singling out his newspaper, the youth leaders should address the issues for which the press conference was called. 567.18) in damages to a senior prisons official. Informanté is a weekly tabloid owned by Trustco Company and is distributed every Thursday for a minimal fee. The Deputy Commissioner General of the Correctional Services, Tuhafeni Hangula, sued Trusco and the editor of Informanté following an article published in December 2011. The article which appeared on the first page was titled “Prisons Deputy helps bank-fraudster escape”. It alleged that, “ the ringleader and the first accused in a record of N$1,500 000 ( USD$ 1, 670, 160) bank card cloning fraud case , Amirthalingam Pugalnanthy, a Sri Lanka national was granted free passage to flee Namibia in February 2009 after paying N$ 150 000 (USD$ 16,701.6) bribe to Prisons Deputy Tuhafeni Hangula.The article further claimed that the suspect who was at that time out on a N$200 000 (USD 22,268.7) bail, was allegedly escorted by two police officers in a vehicle with government registration number to the Noordoewer Border Post in the South on 21 February 2009. $OHUW Date: December 3, 2012 Person/ institution: Informanté Violation/ issue: legislation The Windhoek High Court on the 26 November 2012 ordered the Informanté newspaper to pay N$ 50 000 (USD$ 5, 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\"