One year ago today, the initial arrests were made of a group of activists in Angola's capital of Luanda. Dubbed the #Angola17, their crime was meeting to read a book and discuss non-violent metho...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/liberation-day-for-angola-join-us-in-demanding-freedom/
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 Mar...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/angolas-activist-to-prison-pipeline/
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe for 36 years, turns 92 this month. His birthday celebrations are known as lavish occasions; last year his guests dined on baby elephant. This year, reports ar...
Following your December 19th concert in Luanda, Angola, you tweeted "Angola has my heart." More importantly, however, you also tweeted a picture of yourself with Isabel dos Santos, daughter of th...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/nicki-minaj-heres-why-angola-should-not-have-your-heart/
Marcos Mavungo's spent his birthday, December 6th, in prison, where he has been for the past 9 months. He, along with the #Angola15, endured the irony of Angola's recent 40th independence celebra...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/celebrating-from-prison-in-angola/
If Angola intends as it has stated in the past, to be a leader both within the continent and on the world stage, it must start by addressing its own concerns, particularly when the UN explicitly ...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/angolas-united-nations-fail/
There has been a marked increase in repression of freedom of expression, association and assembly in Angola in recent years. Amnesty has documented arrests and trials that violate international j...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/dying-for-freedom-activist-on-hunger-strike-in-angola/
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. Journalis...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/angola-where-peaceful-protest-is-a-crime/
Tuesday, June 30th was a very good day. Two activists in Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, walked free after serving over a year of a two-year prison sentence. Bhekithemba (Bheki) M...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/human-rights-victory-swaziland-prisoners-of-conscience-freed/
There is a short distance between freedom and conviction in Angola. For journalist and human rights activist Rafael Marques de Morais, it was one week.
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/angola-journalist-rafael-marques-convicted-for-writing-a-book/