Africa: Mozambique – Journalist Arrested, Others Harassed and Equipment Seized

Journalist Sheila Wilson, a reporter with the Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, was violently pushed into a police vehicle sustaining injuries to her head. She was taken to the Fourth Police Station in the capital Maputo, where she was held incommunicado for almost six hours before being released without charges .

Amnesty International reported that former agents of National Service for Popular Security held a ‘sit in’ at the UNDP headquarters in Maputo to demand compensation which they claim…