Luanda regime defiant over long prison termsActivists and human rights campaigners expressed dismay this weekend after the Portuguese parliament failed to sentence the long sentences given to the so-called Luanda Book Club – the 17 dissidents convicted of political defiance of Angola’s government.
The former colonial power had been warned by the Angolan president,José Eduardo dos Santos, against “interfering, and but the blocking of a motion in Lisbon to repudiate (to reject, decline) the verdicts was attacked by campaigners for the jailed men as “complicity in the ongoing looting” of the country by the regime.
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Source: theguardian.com