{"id":185421,"date":"2024-11-27T12:43:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-no-justice-for-years-of-police-violence-that-left-people-dead-wounded-and-traumatized\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:43:17","slug":"angola-no-justice-for-years-of-police-violence-that-left-people-dead-wounded-and-traumatized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-no-justice-for-years-of-police-violence-that-left-people-dead-wounded-and-traumatized\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: No Justice for Years of Police Violence That Left People Dead, Wounded and Traumatized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Authorities in Angola must hold police officers accountable for killing, injuring or traumatizing dozens of people during protests between November 2020 and June 2023, Amnesty International said in a new report. Police must also stop attacking protesters and respect and uphold everyone&#8217;s right to freedom of assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">The report, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/afr\/12\/8764\/2024\/en\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Broken promises: protesters caught between tear gas, bullets and baton<\/em>s <em>in Angola<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> reveals a pattern of excessive and unnecessary use of force by police under Angola&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411270244.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Angola must hold police officers accountable for killing, injuring or traumatizing dozens of people during protests between November 2020 and June 2023, Amnesty International said in a new report. Police must also stop attacking protesters and respect and uphold everyone&#8217;s right to freedom of assembly. The report, Broken promises: protesters caught between tear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631139:ebf2fccbfb20dc25a52732ca6621b278:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,8096,6852,7781,257,6321,662,254,23773,2148,9496,5114],"class_list":["post-185421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-dead","tag-justice","tag-left","tag-news","tag-people","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traumatized","tag-violence","tag-wounded","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631139:ebf2fccbfb20dc25a52732ca6621b278:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}