Mozambique: Blogger Killed, Editor Missing As Mozambique’s Press Freedom Crisis Deepens

“Help. I got shot and they keep shooting…I am dying.”

These were among the last words that Mozambican blogger Albino Sibia streamed live on Facebook on December 12, 2024, after a police officer shot him twice in the back as he was filming police action against protestors.

Sibia, also known as Mano Shottas, died about four hours later, as he was taken from a local clinic to a hospital.

The police “didn’t let him rest even on hisfuneral,” Sibia’s widow, Vânia Tembe, told CPJ. Police opened fire…