AN Angolan journalist charged with defaming the country’s president appeared in provincial court on Wednesday and asked to have the case against him dismissed. Rafael Marques, a columnist for independent weekly newspaper Agora, was arrested and jailed six weeks ago for an article he wrote called The Dictator’s Lipstick, which compared President Eduardo dos Santos to rebel Unita leader Jonas Savimbi. Marques’ lawyer on Wednesday filed to dismiss the case, immediately transferring it to the Supreme Court, which will now hear five days of argument before deciding whether the charges should be dropped.