Friends of Angola

27 de Abril de 2020 A Sua Excelência, Presidente da República de Moçambique, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi Avenida Julius Nyerere, PABX 2000 Maputo, Moçambique Excelência, Carta aberta sobre a preocupante deterioração da situação de direitos humanos na província de Cabo Delgado, no norte de Moçambique Nós, organizações da sociedade civil abaixo assinadas, desejamos expressar a nossa…

Image: Friends of Angola URGENT ACTION By Amnesty International 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 of the State” and “public disturbance and resistance”. Six protesters remain detained. The Public Prosecutor has…

By Amnesty International Joint Statement: Civil Society Calls for the Unconditional and Immediate Release of the Gaza-18 Election Party Delegates The undersigned civil society organizations strongly condemn the poor conditions of detention and ill-treatment of 18 election observers from the opposition New Democracy (ND) party in Guija district. The 18 were arrested by the Mozambican…

Fonte: Amnistía Internacional As organizações da sociedade civil abaixo assinadas condenam veementemente as más condições de detenção e os maus-tratos sofridos pelos 18 observadores eleitorais do partido da oposição Nova Democracia (ND), no distrito de Guijá. Estas 18 pessoas foram detidas pelas autoridades moçambicanas no distrito de Chókwe, província de Gaza, quando monitorizavam o processo…

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By AI URGENT ACTION WHEREABOUTS OF community activist UNKNOWN Joaquim Costa Zangui, the National Youth Secretary of the Democratic Bloc, was abducted by unknown men on 12 August. He went missing a day after he had presided over the electoral process to elect the new Residential Commission President in Massaque, Viana Municipality, Angola. His whereabouts…

By Amnesty International High school students; Afonso S. Muatchipuculo (22), António J. Fernando (18) and Justino H. Valente (21) were sentenced to seven months in prison by the Malange Provincial Court in Angola on 9 April after an unfair trial. The three were arrested on 4 April for allegedly throwing stones at the Vice-President’s convoy…

By Amnesty International In response to the Angolan Constitutional Tribunal’s decision to declare unconstitutional the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Presidential Decree, a piece of legislation that sought to monitor the registration and financial support of NGOs, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa, Deprose Muchena said: The court’s judgement is a positive step forward that gives…

By AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY President Donald Trump’s proposed suspension of a ground-breaking transparency law on conflict minerals will reward irresponsible business practices and seriously undermine global human rights protections, Amnesty International said today. “The conflict minerals law is a vital way of breaking the chain between horrific human rights abuses in Central Africa and…