Angola: Uíge – the Violence of the Angolan Political Police

Neide dos Santos, 24, was sitting in a bus parked near UNITA’s provincial headquarters in Uíge at about 2pm when stones began striking the vehicle. Another activist and the driver were with her.

“The driver ran to close the windows,” she recalls. As the attack intensified, he escaped. Neide remained behind. “The police threw tear-gas grenades inside the bus and I passed out.”

An ambulance took her to the local hospital, where, she says, a doctor described her condition as “critical”. Officers…