ceedings of the so-called ‘Chinese Bank’ case, related to a financial association known as the Chinese Bank, which allegedly operated illegally in the city of Maputo. June 2017 EXPELLED Journalists from Chimoio Community Television (TVC) were chased out by the governor. The journalists were prevented from joining the delegation travelling for the purposes of the verification of the withdrawal of government forces. June 2017 THREATENED The councillor for Infrastructure, Urbanisation and Construction at Quelimane Municipal Council, Yassin Calú, threatened and embargoed the construction of a building on a piece of land belonging to a newspaper in retaliation for the newspaper’s report on signs of corruption in the sector under the authority of the councilman. July 2017 EXPELLED Two journalists, including André Catueira of the Lusa Agency and Benedito Cobrissua of the weekly Zambeze, were barred from joining the armed forces delegation monitoring the withdrawal of the government forces from Gorongosa, areas surrounding the refuge of Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama. July 2017 ASSAULTED Two journalists from the Magazine Independente, namely Abanês Ndanda and António Nhangumbe, reporter and trainee reporter respectively, were assaulted by Maputo provincial government security agents, with the knowledge of the Communications Office of the institution, when they were photographing the building, which is not prohibited by law. The journalists’ equipment was forcibly taken away (a camera from which the memory card was removed for the purpose of deleting the images taken), on the grounds that lack of authorisation infringed the image rights of that institution. 19 July 2017 THREATENED Aparício de Nascimento, editor of the newspaper Malacha, published in the city of Tete, was summoned by the local police, to be heard by the provincial commander and his respective chief of operations. The hearing took place the following day, 20 July. The newspaper was summoned in the wake of an article reporting that a police officer had shot and killed an innocent young man. July 2017 THREATENED The FMO website (http://www. fmo.org.mz/) was attacked by hackers after organising the collection of signatures and submitting a request to the Constitutional Council for review of the constitutionality of parliament’s act of legalisation of hidden debts. On the website one could read “this site was hacked by Pri Nce”. In the background appeared a drawn image of a bloodied person and with the caption “Property of Pri Nce”. July 2017 VICTORY With legal support from MISA, the weekly Magazine Independente and its respective editor were acquitted in a lawsuit filed by the former Regional Director of the Mozambican Tax Authority, Cristiano Arcanjo Dengo, in which