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Urgent Action Outcome: Activist Released After 18 Months Of DetentionOn 23 June Angolan activist Tanaice Neutro was unconditionally released from detention.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2023 -
Angola: Police kill teenagers during lockdown enforcement - investigationPolice and armed forces targeted youths from poor neighbourhoods as they supposedly enforced mask-wearing and other coronavirus measures
Press release 25 Aug 2020 -
Angola: drought and commercial cattle farming causing devastating hunger -new report67% of land now occupied by commercial farmers
Press release 15 Oct 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Forty protesters freed, ten still detained
A judge at the Cabinda Court ordered the provisional release of 40 more protesters on 19 April.
Urgent action outcomes 13 May 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Thirteen protesters freed, fifty held arbitrarily
Judge ordered the provisional release of 13 protesters ruling that their arrest without a warrant was illegal.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Apr 2019 -
Urgent Action: Sixty-two activists, protesters arbitrarily held
Sixty-two people including activists from the Independence Movement of Cabinda were arrested.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Whereabouts of community activist unknown in Angola
Joaquim Costa Zangui, the National Youth Secretary of the Democratic Bloc, was abducted by unknown men on 12 August.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Aug 2018 -
Urgent Action good news: Court overturns conviction of three youths in Angola
Three youths were released on 17 July. They had been sentenced to seven months in prison in April after an unfair trial.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Aug 2018 -
Urgent Action: Three youths imprisoned after unfair trial in Angola
Three high school students were sentenced to seven months in prison after an unfair trial.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Jun 2018 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender and journalist charged in Angola
Human rights defender Rafael Marques de Morais and journalist Mariano Brás Lourenço have formally been charged with ‘defa
Urgent action outcomes 03 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Four youth activists released on bail in Angola
Four Angolan youth activists who are part of the Benguela Revolutionary Movement (Movimento Revolucionário de Benguela) are out on bail. The youth activists have not been charged.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Angolan activist released a week early
Francisco Mapanda (also known as Dago Nível Intelecto) was released from Comarca de Caquila prison on 21 November, seven days earlier than when he was due to be released. The reason for his early release is unknown.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: 17 Angolan youth activists granted amnesty
The 17 Angolan youth activists arrested, detained and convicted for attending a meeting to discuss politics and governance concerns in the country were granted amnesty by the Supreme Court on 16 September.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action Update: Detained Angolan activist beaten by prison officials
Angolan youth activist, Francisco Mapanda, was beaten by prison officials for asking that his family be informed of a prison transfer before he agreed to it.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Four youth activists detained without charge in Angola
Four Angolan youth activists who are part of the Benguela Revolutionary Movement (Movimento Revolucionário de Benguela) were arrested by police on the evening of 4 August.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Angolan youth activist must be released
Angolan youth activist, Francisco Mapanda, was charged with contempt of Court and subjected to a summary trial. He was sentenced to eight months in prison on 28 March.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Youth activists conditionally released in Angola
16 of the 17 Angolan youth activists were conditionally released following the Supreme Court’s decision on the habeas corpus. Nito Alves was later conditionally released following a Constitutional Court decision.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Angolan human rights defender freed, lawyer risks jail
The Angolan Supreme Tribunal acquitted human rights defender José Marcos Mavungo on 19 May and he was released the following day.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Jailed Angolan youth activists appeal their sentence
The lawyers for the 17 youth activists sentenced to jail terms of between 2 years and 8 years, six months have lodged an appeal at the Supreme Court and a habeas corpus before the Constitutional Court.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Apr 2016 -
Angola: 17 jailed activists named Amnesty prisoners of consciencePress release 29 Mar 2016
