AN Angolan radio journalist has been convicted for defamation after allegedly inquiring about screams coming from prisoners inside a police station, his lawyer said on Friday.
The Angolan court handed Queiros Chiluvia a six-month suspended sentence, the lawyer said by telephone from Luanda, in a case that drew criticism from a media rights group.
Chiluvia, a deputy editor at Radio Despertar, a station backed by Angola’s main opposition party UNITA, was arrested on Sunday after entering the Cacuaco police station on the edge of Luanda to seek comment about the prisoners’ screams.