· October, 2012

Stories about Malawi from October, 2012

Malawi: Online Journalist Arrested for Allegedly Insulting the President

  17 October 2012

Malawian online journalist Justice Mponda was arrested Monday morning 15 October 2012 in Blantyre allegedly for insulting the president, publishing false information and criminal libel. Mponda works with malawivoice.com. His arrest came in the wake of a new E-Bill, which seeks to regulate and control online communications in Malawi.

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