Angola: Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Angola

48th session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review

Introduction

This submission highlights Human Rights Watch’s concerns about Angola’s compliance with its international human rights obligations since its previous Universal Periodic Reviews (UPR) in 2014 and 2019. The submission focuses on problems related to arbitrary arrest and detention, extrajudicial killings and police brutality, the security law, and migrants’ rights.

Arbitrary Arrest and Detention

Despite accepting…