Court charges 17 campaigners under charges including acts of rebellion,planning mass action of civil disobedience and producing fake passports[br]Seventeen young Angolan activists were charged in court with rebellion against the state yesterday, for organising a reading of a US academics book.
The young campaigners were detained in June after organising a reading of Gene Sharp’s 1993 book From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation. The book’s blurb describes it as “a blueprint for nonviolent resistance to repressive regimes”.
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Source: theguardian.com