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.
Source: MEDIA FEED
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