angola court jails 17 youth activists including rapper for rebellion
Wednesday 25 June 2025
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Angola court jails 17 youth activists, including rapper, for 'rebellion'

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Luaty Beirao, pictured in 2012, is one of 17 Angolan youth activists
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A court in Angola on Monday sentenced 17 youth activists, including a well-known rapper, to between two and eight years in jail for rebellion against President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

The sentence was handed down at the end of a lengthy trial in Luanda that the Angolan opposition has said proves the existence of ingrained political repression.

Rapper Luaty Beirao, who went on hunger strike for over a month last year to protest his detention, was given a five-and-a-half year sentence for "rebellion against the president of the republic, criminal association and falsifying documents".

Another activist, Domingos da Cruz, who was identified by the judge as the "leader" of the group, was handed eight-and-a-half years for planning a coup and for criminal association.

The defendants were calm as the sentences were read out before being taken away to jail at the judge's orders.

The activists insist they are peaceful campaigners for the departure of dos Santos, who has ruled the former Portuguese colony since 1979 and is Africa's second longest-serving leader. They were arrested in June and have always denied the charges against them.

Michel Francisco, a lawyer representing 10 of the accused, said he would appeal.

"Justice has not been done in a transparent way because things have been politicised and the judge only obeyed higher orders coming from the president of the republic," he told reporters.

Rights groups say activists in Angola, Africa's second-largest oil producer, are being increasingly targeted by dos Santos' government.

Amnesty International said the activists should have not been arrested in the first place and described their detention as a "travesty of justice".

On March 11, dos Santos said he would step down in 2018 but the announcement was received with scepticism following two similar pledges in the past. His current mandate ends at the end of next year.
Source :AFP

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