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Angola: Police Puts End to Protest

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Angola, Digital Activism, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Politics, Protest

The Angolan collective @Central7311 informed on Twitter that some of its members were detained [1] on September 20, 2012, “for holding a peaceful demonstration” which intended [2] to “pressure the opposition not to take their place in parliament after clearly fraudulent elections”. The demonstrators were released six hours after the detention, Maka Angola reports [3] [pt].