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Newspaper publisher detained

    JOHANNESBURG

    The publisher of a bi-weekly Angolan newspaper was detained by police at the weekend and was being held incommunicado, sources at the newspaper, ‘Folha 8’, told IRIN on Monday.

    They said William Toneto had been denied visits by his family and friends and that they had no news of his whereabouts or any charges against him since detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department seized him at his home on Saturday morning.

    News agencies said Toneto, who had been detained several times previously on charges of defamation and publishing news deemed threatening to the state, had been barred last month from leaving the country.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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