SECTOR 1 defunct and succeeded by the SISE (Department of State Inelligence and Security) ; • The Law of Crimes against State Security: this law was approved eight days after the approval of the Press Law, setting out in its Article 22 that the Defamation of the PR, Ministers, Supreme Court Judges and even general secretaries of political parties is considered to be a crime agasint State security, which carries a penalty of between one and two years in prison ; • The Law of Public Probity: not specifically intended for the media, but for the promotion of government transparency, this legal act, at least potentially, has proved to be problematic for freedom of the press, since it extends the range of those who are liable, in a certain media company, for press crimes. For the rest, number 3 of Article 69 of the Law of Public Probity states that : “In the event that it is not known who is directly responsible for the publication mentioned in the previous number [Part II of the tax return and assets, which is that it contains items which allow for rigorous assessment of the assets and income of the declarant and his spouse, or the person with whom he lives as such, minor children and legal dependents], then the Director or Chairman of the Board of Directors of the media body is personally implicated in terms of the same number”; • The Press Law while it is seen as a law which is generally compatible with basic democratic values, contains a standard which is at least problematic, by undermining the very content of the presumption of innocence, which right is constitutionally guaranteed. Number 4 of Article 47 of the Press Law then reads that “no proof of the accuracy of facts is required if the offender is the President of the Republic or, reciprocally, a foreign Head of State or his representative in Mozambique”. In fact, no PR or equivalent has resorted to this provision in the more than two decades that the Law has been in effect, but the simple fact that it is provided for , by omission, could cause pressure for journalists. Even though many of these laws and/or articles of laws are constitutionally clearly doubtful, although they have not formally been removed from the legal system, they seem to be blocking freedom of the press. The fact that the Law on the Right to Information, approved by the AR on November 26 2014 states, in its final and temporary provisions, that all laws which contradict it are revoked, this is good news, although this will not happen automatically. AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER MOZAMBIQUE 2014 71