Mozambique: Journalists ask President to veto law on courts

MISa reports that all of the main Mozambican journalists' associations have urged President Armando Guebuza not to promulgate a bill passed by the country's parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, earlier this month which will ban any broadcasting of trials. The bill concerns the organisation of the country's courts, and most of it is uncontroversial, dealing with such matters as expanding the powers of district courts, and introducing a new layer of intermediate appeals courts.