Malawi Police detain Journalist Dorica Mtenje over story

Malawi Police Service detained Malawian female journalist Dorica Mtenje, who works for Maravi Post. The police confiscated Mtenje’s phones and filed charges against her for defamation, cyber-related offences, and offensive communication over a story she had not even written or published. According to Mtenje, a senior reporter for the publication, the police said that the National Intelligence Bureau’s Director General, Dokani Ngwira, reported that the female journalist’s story could compromise national security. Mtenje could not hide the fear that has now gripped her when recalling how she was kept at the National Police Headquarters for six hours before she was thrown into a cell at Area 18 Police in the capital city of Lilongwe. https://malawi24.com/2023/02/09/malawi-police-detain-journalist-dorica-mtenje-over-story/