Angola: Freedom of Expression - a Crime Against the State Security in Angola

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In the oil-rich enclave of Cabinda, in the northernmost part of Angola, three individuals share a prison cell, since March 14, charged with crimes against the state security and sedition, for a protest against bad governance and human rights abuses, which never took place. Their arrests and the charges leveled against them, are what illustrate the sophistication of the authoritarian rule in Angola.

Members of the state security arrested Marcos Mavungo, a university lecturer and oil worker for Chevron, as soon as he exited the Catholic Church where he attended morning mass at 7h00.

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