CSOs: Arson Attacks Target Rights Activists

Civil society groups in Malawi have accused President Bingu wa Mutharika's administration of muzzling freedom of expression following an alleged arson attack on a house belonging to a rights activist.

The house, which belongs to McDonald Sembereka, the acting national coordinator of a group of human rights organisations, the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), was allegedly petrol bombed earlier this month by unknown arsonists.

There is widespread speculation and claims from civil society groups that these barbaric acts are being engineered by extremist supporters of President Bingu wa Mutharika's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), following his call for the party's youth to protect him and the DPP.

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