(MISA/IFEX) – The Voice of America (VOA) office in Luanda reports that on Wednesday 19 July 2000, two people, including one individual in police uniform, broke into journalist Joao de Almeida Domingos’ car. Domingos is a VOA journalist. The perpetrators broke the windscreen of Domingos’ car with a rock and removed a number of personal […]
(MISA/IFEX) – The Voice of America (VOA) office in Luanda reports that on Wednesday 19 July 2000, two people, including one individual in police uniform, broke into journalist Joao de Almeida Domingos’ car. Domingos is a VOA journalist.
The perpetrators broke the windscreen of Domingos’ car with a rock and removed a number of personal documents and work materials, including audio cassettes containing interviews and a computer diskette. However, the robbers left the more valuable cassette recorder and speakers as well as the vehicle’s documents and other belongings that were in the car.
A press release from the VOA’s Luanda office described the incident as “sinister”. VOA deplored the incident, adding that it came exactly one month after a group of armed assailants tried to force their way into its Luanda office (see IFEX alert of 26 June 2000). VOA appealed to the authorities to take appropriate measures to put a stop to “this climate of intimidation and persecution of journalists”.
