mozambique: CPJ LAUNCHES web special on cardosa trial
The Committee to Protect Journalists has added a new feature to its Web site dedicated to the ongoing criminal trial in Mozambique of suspects in the Carlos Cardoso murder case. Cardoso, Mozambique's leading investigative reporter, was gunned down on November 22, 2000. Six people were arrested in March 2001 for the murder.
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PRESS RELEASE - MOZAMBIQUE
4 December 2002
CPJ launches special web coverage of Cardoso murder trial
SOURCE: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), New York
**For further information on the Cardoso case, see IFEX alerts of 12 and 4
November, 8 October, 3 September and 22 May 2002, 20 July, 22 May, 15, 12 and 5
March, 22 February and 22 January 2001, 20 December, 28, 24 and 23 November
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(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 3 December 2002 CPJ press release:
CPJ LAUNCHES SPECIAL COVERAGE OF COURT PROCEEDINGS IN CASE OF MURDERED
MOZAMBICAN JOURNALIST
New York, December 3, 2002-The Committee to Protect Journalists has added a new
feature to its Web site dedicated to the ongoing criminal trial in Mozambique of
suspects in the Carlos Cardoso murder case.
Cardoso, Mozambique's leading investigative reporter, was gunned down on
November 22, 2000. Six people were arrested in March 2001 for the murder.
The new CPJ Web link, "Special Coverage: The Case of Carlos Cardoso," provides
background information on the case, as well as regular updates on court
proceedings, which began on November 18 at a maximum-security prison outside
Mozambique's capital, Maputo.
For more information, please click here:
http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2002/Cardoso_nov02/cardoso_nov02.html
CPJ is a New York-based, independent, nonprofit organization that works to
safeguard press freedom worldwide. For more information about press conditions
in Mozambique, visit www.cpj.org.
For further information, contact Yves Sorokobi (ext. 112), Wacuka Mungai (ext.
106) or Adam Posluns (ext. 107) at CPJ, 330 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10001,
U.S.A., tel: +1 212 465 1004, fax: +1 212 465 9568, e-mail: [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], Internet: http://www.cpj.org/
The information contained in this press release is the sole responsibility of
CPJ. In citing this material for broadcast or publication, please credit CPJ.
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