{"id":203861,"date":"2025-08-03T02:49:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-protest-defendants-await-appeals-a-year-on\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T02:49:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:49:50","slug":"angola-protest-defendants-await-appeals-a-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-protest-defendants-await-appeals-a-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Protest Defendants Await Appeals a Year On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Johannesburg \u2014 <em>Right to Fair Trial and Choice of Counsel Denied<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nearly 200 people convicted in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/angola\" rel=\"noopener\">Angola<\/a> a year ago after unfair trials are still imprisoned and waiting for their appeals to be heard, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">On July 30, 2024, the Saurimo District Court in Lunda Sul province found 198 defendants guilty for their alleged participation in protests in support of regional autonomy in the country&#8217;s eastern provinces. The court sentenced them to between four and eight years in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507300073.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>Johannesburg \u2014 Right to Fair Trial and Choice of Counsel Denied Nearly 200 people convicted in Angola a year ago after unfair trials are still imprisoned and waiting for their appeals to be heard, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 30, 2024, the Saurimo District Court in Lunda Sul province found 198 defendants guilty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,4344,22443,23828,257,2194,254,6537],"class_list":["post-203861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-appeals","tag-await","tag-defendants","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203861","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=203861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}