Angola: CPJ, Partners Urge Angola to Amend Draft Law On False Information

The Committee to Protect Journalists and 37 other media and human rights groups have written to the Angolan Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies, and Media, urging amendments to the draft law on the Dissemination of False Information on the Internet, to ensure it aligns with Angola’s constitutional protections for freedom of expression and with the international and regional human rights treaties to which the country is a party.

The signatories expressed deep concern over the…