Five courageous individuals were named Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award winners on 18 March 2015. Three months later, here are updates on their ongoing work
Index Awards 2015: Driving the “good fight for change”
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CATEGORY: Angola
Philip Pullman, Jimmy Wales, and Steve McQueen join call for Angola to drop charges against investigative journalist
Rafael Marques de Morais was last week given a suspended sentence following a criminal defamation trial related to his 2011 book on blood diamonds, published for the first time in English on June 2
Angolan journalist Rafael Marques de Morais receives six-month suspended sentence
Angolan investigative journalist and Index on Censorship award-winner Rafael Marques de Morais was handed down a six-month suspended sentence less than a week after celebrating an apparent dismissal of all charges
Rafael Marques de Morais: “They can lock me up, but they don’t get to silence me”
When you go up against the big guns of any state, you know they will throw everything at you. Investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais has learned this hard lesson in the last few days
Index condemns decision to move for conviction of Rafael Marques de Morais
Index is appalled to learn that a decision to pursue charges against Index award winning investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais is moving forward despite apparent agreement between the parties.
“Great news indeed”: Trial of Angolan investigative journalist ends
Charges against Angolan investigative journalist and Index award winner Rafael Marques de Morais have been dropped
Angola: Trial of investigative journalist resumes
Index award winning investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais’s criminal defamation trial is set to resume today
Angola: Trial of investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais postponed
The journalist, who exposed corruption and serious human rights violations connected to the diamond trade in Angola, is due in court again on 14 May
Angola: Index award winner slammed with new defamation charges
Just days after being named the joint winner of the journalism award at the 15th Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards, Rafael Marques de Morais appeared in court for exposing corruption and human rights abuses
#IndexAwards2015: Journalism nominee Rafael Marques de Morais
Rafael Marques de Morais is an Angolan journalist and human rights activist. He is currently facing nine charges of defamation after publishing on human rights abuses committed during diamond mining operations in Angola.