Prison sentences for activists Angola

luanda - An Angolan court sentenced Monday seventeen young activists to prison terms of 2 to 8.5 years of rebellion against the government of President José Eduardo dos Santos.

They were arrested in Luanda in June last year after they organized a lecture on a book by the American scholar Gene Sharp on the transition from dictatorship to democracy. The blurb praises the work as,, a blueprint for violent resistance against oppressive regimes. '