{"id":219961,"date":"2026-01-10T23:02:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angolas-war-on-words-turning-journalism-into-espionage\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:02:52","slug":"angolas-war-on-words-turning-journalism-into-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angolas-war-on-words-turning-journalism-into-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola&#8217;s War on Words: Turning Journalism into Espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Angola\u2019s case against journalist Amor Carlos Tom\u00e9 treats opinion as conspiracy, press clippings as espionage, and critical writing as terrorism \u2014 exposing the fragility of the state\u2019s narrative, not the danger of the accused.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Angolan sports journalist Amor Carlos Tom\u00e9 has been in custody since August, facing nine serious charges: espionage, terrorism, belonging to a terrorist organization, influence peddling, criminal association, incitement, active corruption, fraud and variations of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601100180.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angola\u2019s case against journalist Amor Carlos Tom\u00e9 treats opinion as conspiracy, press clippings as espionage, and critical writing as terrorism \u2014 exposing the fragility of the state\u2019s narrative, not the danger of the accused. Angolan sports journalist Amor Carlos Tom\u00e9 has been in custody since August, facing nine serious charges: espionage, terrorism, belonging to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680437:2558048c188ffe313ba7dda45acff609:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,13368,22266,3115,257,254,15335,6618,14539],"class_list":["post-219961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-angolas","tag-espionage","tag-journalism","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turning","tag-war","tag-words"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680437:2558048c188ffe313ba7dda45acff609:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}