New York — Angolan authorities must refrain from arresting members of the press covering public events, and should return all equipment confiscated from journalist Jorge Manuel, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On April 7, police officers arrested Manuel, a reporter for the Radio Despertar broadcaster, while he was covering protests against local authorities' evictions of people in the Sequele municipality of Luanda, the capital, according to Manuel and Radio Despertar co-director Queirós Chiluvia, both of whom spoke to CPJ in phone interviews.
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