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– Angolan journalists Rafael Marques de Morais & Mariano Bras Lourenco charged with crimes against state (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News June 25, 2017

Rafael Marques de Morais, who runs the anticorruption website "Maka Angola", and Mariano Bras Lourenco, of the weekly newspaper "O Crime", face charges of "outrage to a body of sovereignty and injury against public authority," under Angola's Law on Crimes against State Security.
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