{"id":224045,"date":"2026-02-17T12:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-in-angola-security-laws-turn-11-seconds-into-six-months-of-jail\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:35:50","slug":"angola-in-angola-security-laws-turn-11-seconds-into-six-months-of-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-in-angola-security-laws-turn-11-seconds-into-six-months-of-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: In Angola, Security Laws Turn 11 Seconds Into Six Months of Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Five days before Angola&#8217;s violent crackdown on striking taxi drivers last year, the Criminal Investigation Service detained 50-year-old Ven\u00e2ncio Filipe Ngondo Lucungo under accusations of rebellion, public incitement to crime, public apology of crime and provocation to war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The state-owned <em>Angolan Public Television<\/em> broadcast an official communiqu\u00e9 stating that Lucungo had encouraged citizens &#8220;to take up firearms and bladed weapons to rebel against the government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The allegation rests on 11&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170008.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>Five days before Angola&#8217;s violent crackdown on striking taxi drivers last year, the Criminal Investigation Service detained 50-year-old Ven\u00e2ncio 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 communiqu\u00e9 stating that Lucungo had encouraged citizens &#8220;to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224046,"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":[258,256,3941,4263,7354,5040,7061,257,53677,4586,254,7101],"class_list":["post-224045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-jail","tag-laws","tag-months","tag-news","tag-seconds","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turn"],"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\/224045","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=224045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}