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Urgent Action Update: 59 Protesters Officially Charged (Angola: UA 18.19)
Sixty-three protesters were arrested in January and February 2019 for their involvement in a peaceful protest. On 5 February 2020, 59 protesters were formally charged with “criminal association”, “rebellion”, “insult…
Victory
Good News! – Angola: Charges Against Arão Bula Tempo Dropped (UA 78/15)
The Cabinda Provincial Tribunal dismissed the criminal charges against human rights lawyer Arão Bula Tempo on 12 July.
Update
Angola’s Activist to Prison Pipeline
The recent slump in oil prices has had serious repercussions across Angola. Citizens are suffering and the government is increasingly intolerant of dissent. It is in that atmosphere that Jose…
Press Release
Angola: Independence celebrations marred by crackdown on human rights
President José Eduardo dos Santos’s tightening stranglehold on freedom of expression in Angola and his government’s decades of fear and repression will cast an indelible stain on the 40th anniversary…
Update
Angola: Where Peaceful Protest is a Crime
Police and security forces in Angola use the courts, dogs, batons, torture, and murder to attack citizens exercising rights guaranteed in their constitution and under international law. Journalist Rafael Marques…
Press Release
Authorities must free human rights activist in Angola
Angolan authorities must drop the charge of “rebellion” against human rights activist José Marcos Mavungo and immediately and unconditionally free him, Amnesty International said today ahead of the court’s final…
Report
Annual Report: Angola 2013
REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA Head of state and government José Eduardo dos Santos Police and security forces continued to use excessive force, including against peaceful demonstrators, as well as to carry…
Report
Annual Report: Angola 2011
Head of state: José Eduardo dos Santos Head of government: António Paulo Kassoma Death penalty: abolitionist for all crimes Population: 19 million Life expectancy: 48.1 years Under-5 mortality (m/f): 220/189…
Report
Annual Report: Angola 2010
Head of state José Eduardo dos Santos Head of government António Paulo Kassoma Death penalty abolitionist for all crimes Population 18.5 million Life expectancy 46.5 years Under-5 mortality (m/f) 220/189…
Country
Angola
Angola is an oil rich nation in southern Africa rising from a decades' long civil war to become an emerging force in the world economic market. Rapid economic development has…
Update
Human Rights Victory in Angola!!
[caption id="attachment_16265" align="alignleft" width="184" caption="Billboard showing portraits of the victims of an attack on the bus carrying the Togo national football team."][/caption] Today, four persons incarcerated in Angola were released…
Update
When Even Terrorists Say "You Suck!"
[caption id="attachment_12825" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="Photographers sit beside a billboard showing portraits of the victims of an attack on the bus carrying the Togo national football team, ahead of a ceremony…