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27 May 2015

Author:
Simon Allison, Daily Maverick (So. Africa)

Angola in Focus: Rafael Marques, on the eve of his verdict – "It’s torture"

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On Thursday, Rafael Marques discovers his fate. After being set up in court, the award-winning Angolan investigative journalist and corruption fighter is likely to spend a month in jail – despite the charges against him being dropped last week...So were you set up? What game were they playing? That’s what I said in public – this was a set-up. They wanted to prevent my witnesses from testifying, and to prevent me from submitting more documents in court which proved that all the cases I published in the book concerning the generals’ companies I had submitted to their companies six months before the book was published. And usually journalists don’t send the cases, they send questions. I not only sent questions, but sent the mother of a victim who was hacked to death by one of the guards from the generals companies. So she could explain in person what they did to her son, and how she sought justice. The police refused her by saying this is a general’s company, and everyone refused to listen to her. I had the evidence, the emails printed and everything, that I submitted that in writing.

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