Radio presenter gunned down
Alberto Graves Chakussanga was the presenter of a programme on Radio Despertar, a station critical of the ruling MPLA government.
Human Rights Watch calls on government to end case against Cabinda rights defenders
Freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are at stake, Human Rights Watch noted.
Government urged to release Cabinda rights defenders
Three human rights defenders were arrested, apparently on political grounds, following an 8 January 2010 attack on Togolese footballers in Cabinda.
Togolese journalist killed in attack in Angola
Stanislas Ocloo was gunned down in the attack on Togo’s national soccer team’s bus in the northwestern Angolan enclave of Cabinda.
Protect press freedom for Africa Cup, Human Rights Watch urges
The recent arrest of two journalists in Cabinda highlights the climate of intimidation, Human Rights Watch noted.
Journalist receives three months’ suspended prison sentence over article criticising soldiers
The Provincial Tribunal of Luanda has sentenced journalist Eugénio Mateus to a three-month suspended prison sentence for alleged abuse of the media.
In continuing harassment, newspaper editor forbidden to leave country
Reporters Without Borders condemns the foreign travel ban that has been placed on William Tonet, the editor of the independent Luanda-based biweekly “Folha 8”
World Report 2009: Angola
World Report 2009: Angola
Former VOA journalist sentenced to 12 years in prison for “crimes against the state”
(HRW/IFEX) – The following is an abridged version of a Human Rights Watch press release: Angola: End Torture and Unfair Trials in Cabinda Fourteen Civilians Tortured in Military Custody Charged with State Security Crimes (New York, December 10, 2008) – The Angolan government should urgently end torture and unfair trials in state security cases, Human […]
Radio station ordered to suspend broadcasts for six months
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders condemns the government’s decision on 8 July 2008 to suspend independent Radio Despertar’s broadcasts for 180 days on the grounds that their current range, 400 km, is much more the 50 km stipulated in its licence. The suspension comes just one month before an election campaign is due to begin […]
One journalist sentenced for allegedly defaming former justice minister, another on trial for allegedly defaming first lady
(MISA/IFEX) – On 23 June 2008, the Angolan journalist Felisberto da Grâça Campos was sentenced by an Angolan court to six months in prison for allegedly defaming former justice minister Paulo Tjipilika. The journalist was sentenced on charges of defamation, libel, and abuse of the press. Grâça Campos is the director of the weekly “Semanario […]
World Report 2008: Angola
World Report 2008: Angola
Freedom of the Press 2007: Angola
Freedom of the Press 2007: Angola
Provincial radio reporter receives 30-day prison sentence for covering street vendors’ protest
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF condemns the 30-day prison sentence passed by a criminal court in the southwestern city of Namibe on 28 December 2007 against Armando Chicoca, a correspondent of the privately-owned radio station Radio Ecclesia, following his arrest during a demonstration by street vendors six days earlier. “Chicoca’s arrest and conviction seem to have been […]
Newspaper editor released provisionally pending outcome of appeal
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders welcomes the provisional release on 9 November 2007 of Felisberto da Grâça Campos, the editor of the weekly “Semanario Angolense”, pending the outcome of his appeal against the eight-month sentence he received on 3 October on charges of defaming, insulting and denigrating a former minister. The judge who tried Grâça […]
Journalist jailed for eight months for “damaging former minister’s reputation”
(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has expressed shock as a criminal court in Luanda jailed journalist and editor Felisberto da Grâça Campos for eight months and fined him US$250,000 for allegedly insulting a former minister. The editor of the weekly, “Semanario Angolense”, was accused on 3 October 2007 of “defamation, insults, denigration and damaging his […]