A 27 year old journalist arrested in connection with publishing false information after basing a report on a fake Facebook account for President Joyce Banda, has been released on bail. Justice Mponda, a journalist for Malawi Voice, an online publication, was formally charged at Lilongwe Magistrate Court with one count of publishing false information after […]
Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has condemned the arrest of Malawi Voice’s online editor, Justice Mponda and says it considers his detention and treatment as unconstitutional and retrogressive for Malawi’s nascent democracy. Mponda, 27, was arrested by heavily armed police officers in the early hours of Monday at his Chiwembe […]
Malawi Police Service has pressed charges of criminal libel, insulting the president and false publications to an online editor for Malawi Voice, Justice Mponda, in connection with “cooked up” stories. Southern Rehgion police spokesman Superintendent Nicholous Gondwa said they have charged the journalist with three counts and that his file has been open in Lilongwe […]
Police in Blantyre have arrested journalist Justice Mponda for publishing stories on Malawi Voice online deemed seditious, false and treasonous aimed at fomenting public anger against the Joyce Banda administration, Nyasa Times has established. Mponda was picked in the wee hours of Monday by heavily armed police officers in an armored vehicle at his Chiwembe residence in […]