Mozambican journalists' organization requires investigation in attacks against journalists

MAPUTO, April 16 (Xinhua) -- The Emergency Committee for the Protection of Freedoms (CEPL) required Monday that the Office of the Attorney General (PGR) investigate in the attacks and murders against journalists and political commentators in the country.

The petition came after prominent journalist and TV commentator, Ericino de Salema, was kidnapped, beaten up and abandoned in the bush outside the city of Maputo three weeks ago.

After meeting with Attorney General Beatriz Buchili, the representative for CEPL Fernando Lima said that the CEPL had a good impression of the meeting, but it expected to see concrete action in resolving this type of cases.

"The impression is encouraging, but society needs action, rather than the words and intentions," said the representative.

Lima emphasized that the committee was there not only to speak up about the latest tortured journalists but for many others beaten or even murdered, and the perpetrators were never found.

Also a commentator on the same TV program as Salema, political analyst Jose Jaime Macuane was kidnapped and maimed in May 2016, after the assassination of constitutional lawyer Gilles Cistac in March 2015.

Lima said the PGR is already investigating in Salema's case, adding that the CEPL is waiting for presenting the same subject to the presidency of the republic. Enditem