Media online Hatutan.com’s journalist, Rogério Pereira Cárceres and his editor in-chief, Francisco Simões Belo da Costa were summoned by the Public Prosecution Office

Media online Hatutan.com’s journalist, Rogério Pereira Cárceres and his editor in-chief, Francisco Simões Belo da Costa were summoned by the Public Prosecution Office due to it’s the news story published on June 20 2023 entitled Prosecutor-General Alfonso Lopes and his Advisor Óscar Tavares Spend State Budget for their Private Trip to Portugal.

On the basis of this news story, the Public Prosecution Office summoned both Mr. Rogério and Francisco to testify in the Public Prosecution Office as according to Prosecutor-General Alfonso Lopes, Hatutan.com’s news story is considered to be an act of defamation.

The Public Prosecution Office’s summon came after Hatutan.com offered the right to response to Prosecutor-General Alfonso Lopes in compliance with the Press Law, Article 35, which is about the right to response and corrections.

But for the end AJTL has successfully to do dialog with Public Prosecution Office’s to explained about the role of journalists is not crime, doing campaign and advocacy in TV talk show and press conference, and the end Public Prosecution Office's agreed with our agreement and retire the cases from the court.