The court in Timor-Leste has subpoenaed news platform Tempo Timor to appear before the judges on 26 January 2022. The reason: a few articles Tempo Timor published in 2020 about a report written by the Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), which falls under the Metropolitan Archdiocese. Currently the former JPC-director, priest Hermínio de Fátima Gonçalves, is on trial. He is accused of violating the secrecy of justice law[i] by digging into an active criminal investigation, chasing witnesses, writing down his findings in a report dated 7 September 2020 and sharing that document with others, inside and outside the church structure. Tempo Timor didn’t violate any law, but just did its duty by reporting on the JPC-report.
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