Angola: In Angola, Security Laws Turn 11 Seconds Into Six Months of Jail

Five days before Angola’s violent crackdown on striking taxi drivers last year, the Criminal Investigation Service detained 50-year-old Venâncio Filipe Ngondo Lucungo under accusations of rebellion, public incitement to crime, public apology of crime and provocation to war.

The state-owned Angolan Public Television broadcast an official communiqué stating that Lucungo had encouraged citizens “to take up firearms and bladed weapons to rebel against the government.”

The allegation rests on 11…