Acknowledgments

Human Rights Watch would like to thank all individuals that provided advice and facilitated the writing of this paper. We are particularly thankful to Mr. Siona Casimiro and other Angolan journalists, as well as Mr. Antonio Monteiro, a Portuguese media law expert, for responding to our requests for interviews. We would also like to thank the NGO Associao Justia, Paz e Democracia. Finally we want to thankNOVIB for the funding that made this research paper possible.