Angola

(MISA/IFEX) – Journalists Paulo Juliao and Emanuel da Mata from the independent church-owned Radio Ecclesia were released on Tuesday 10 August 1999, some nine hours after being arrested by officers of the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (DNIC). The two were arrested shortly after the station re-broadcast a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) interview with Union for […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 10 August 1999 RSF press release: **Updates IFEX alerts of 10 August, 19 July, 15 July, 9 July, 7 July, 10 June, 8 June, 30 April, 22 April, 19 April, 24 February and 21 January 1999** Paris, 10 August 1999 For immediate distribution Angola – Government attempts to muzzle […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On Monday 9 August 1999, the chief editor of the Catholic FM station Radio Ecclesia, Paulo Juliao, and two other journalists, Laurinda Tavares and Filipe Joaquim, were detained by officers of the police’s Criminal Investigation Department (DNIC) after the station had re-broadcast a BBC interview with UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. Four officers […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On Friday 2 July 1999, a group of plain-clothes police officers pounced on two television crews from the state-owned Angola TPA network and the Portuguese state television channel RPT. They seized their cameras because they had filmed a gunfight involving a police squad and armed robbers in the centre of Luanda. Alves Fernandes, […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a copy of a letter received by CPJ from the Angolan Minister of Social Communications, Pedro Hendrik Vaal Neto, written in Luanda on June 23, 1999. The translation is an unofficial one, done by the Angolan Embassy in Washington DC: **Updates IFEX alerts of 9 July, 7 July and 10 […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is gravely concerned over the increasing repression of the media in Angola. **Updates IFEX alerts as noted in text** Since late 1998, when the breakdown of the Lusaka Protocol peace accords led to a resumption of the civil war, there has been a marked increase in both the frequency and the seriousness […]

(MISA/IFEX) – The following is a MISA report on the state of the media in Angola: Dear friends and colleagues, Following is a chronology of events and incidents involving the media in Angola since January 1999. The trend suggests a systematic decline in respect for the media in Angola, particularly from the government, and over […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is deeply concerned over the comments made by the Minister of Social Communication, Hendrik Vaal Neto, in an interview carried on state radio on 1 June 1999. Neto’s comments are particularly alarming because this is not the first time that the Angolan authorities have warned of a crackdown against journalists who are […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is condemning threats against independent media by Information Minister Pedro Hendrik Vaal Neto during a 1 June 1999 press conference. He notably stated that his government was contemplating “resorting to violence” against independent media which do not support the government in its war against UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 28 April 1999, journalist Josefa Lamberga, a correspondent for Voice of America, was assaulted by a corporal in the Angolan army after she failed to get permission to enter a recruitment centre in Luanda. **Updates IFEX alert of 30 April 1999; for background on other cases involving journalists reporting on military service […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – CPJ is strongly protesting the 28 April 1999 assault by a soldier on Josefa Lamberga, a reporter with the Luanda bureau of the Voice of America (VOA). CPJ is expressing concern that this attack follows a 1 March statement, issued by the Ministry of Social Communication, that defined journalists’ reporting on draft evasion […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is concerned by the legal proceedings launched against independent newspapers and journalists in Luanda. According to RSF’s information, on 10 April 1999, presidential spokesperson Aldomiro Vaz Da Conceição announced that a complaint would be lodged against Gustavo Costa, a correspondent in Angola of the Portuguese weekly “Expresso”. This complaint follows the appearance […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 6 April 1999, the director of the Luanda-based weekly newspaper “Folha 8”, William Tonet, was subjected to interrogation for several hours at the Criminal Investigation Department (DNIC) of the Angolan police, in connection with charges laid by the military attorney’s office. The journalist told MISA-Angola that, on 3 April, a notification for […]

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF is concerned by repeated censorship and threats against journalists and independent radio stations. According to RSF’s information, the radio station Ecclesia, which broadcasts the Africa programme of the Portuguese radio station Renascença, was forbidden to broadcast on three separate occasions: on 13 January 1999, when a report was to be broadcast concerning […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Angolan authorities arrested two independant radio journalists from Radio Morena in Benguela on 11 January 1999. The two journalists, who were picked up at the station at around 7:00 a.m. (local time) by Angolan Intelligence Information Officers, are station director Jose Manuel Alberto and administrator Jose Cabral Sande. The two were picked up […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 3 April 1998, two journalists working for the newspaper “Folha 8”, along with a driver, were detained for a week after being accused of being spies for the Angolan opposition force, UNITA, and of stopping their car illegally in a police zone. According to a report in “Folha 8”, the journalists, Victoria […]