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Angola court orders conditional release of jailed activist book club

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 | 1:57 PM

17 young activists to be released three months after they were arrested during a book club meeting discussing non-violent resistance to repressive regimes

An Angolan court has ordered the conditional release of 17 young activists, including a well-known rapper, three months after they were jailed for rebellion against long-serving president Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

Most of the group were arrested during a book club meeting in June last year, where one of the works under discussion was a book about non-violent resistance to repressive regimes by the US political philosopher Gene Sharp.

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