Angola: Luanda Central Jail's Torture Chamber - the Re-Education Room

22 January 2016
analysis

"They took me to the Police Station in the Nova Vida (New Life) Project where some policemen punched and kicked me," says 28 year-old Benjamin Filipe, as he recalls the events of August 20th, 2012.

The young man was working as a mechanic in a private workshop and lived in Fubu District at the back end of the Nova Vida Project, south of the Angolan capital, Luanda. That day "the police went to my home, saying I possessed a weapon and had committed a crime", he explains.

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