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Namibia’s chief justice has laid contempt of court charges against two independent newspapers and the local Society of Advocates for criticising his conduct, the prosecutor-general’s office was quoted by AFP as saying on Monday.
Deputy prosecutor general Louren Campher said that Chief Justice Judge Pio Teek laid the charges after criticism of his apparent unwillingness to enforce a court order to release Domingos Sikunda, a representative of the Angolan rebel movement UNITA, who was detained in mid-October following a security round-up in Rundu on the Angolan border.
Campher said the police would be investigating the case against the ‘The Namibian’, ‘Die Republikein’ and the Society of Advocates.
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