URGENT MEDIA ALERT: Free the Angolan Activists!
On Tuesday, R2K Gauteng members will be picketing outside the Angolan Embassy in Pretoria calling for an immediate release of 17 youth activists who were arrested for reading a well-known book by Gene Sharp on non-violent civil resistance. They were charged for allegedly planning a plot to topple President José Eduardo dos Santos in March. The charges stemmed from a June 2015 meeting in which the group discussed the book.
DATE: 07 June 2016
TIME: 10:00AM
VENUE: Embassy of Angola
1030 Francis Baard Street
Hatfield, Pretoria
Members of the media are invited to cover the picket.
For more information contact:
Ntombi Tshabalala, R2K GP Organiser: 078 594 8962
Palesa Kunene, R2K GP Administrator: 079 417 3914
Free the Angolan Activists!
Reading Books Should Not Lead to Arrest!
