Angolan authorities are investigating the robbery of the headquarters of the Union of Journalists of Angola

Angola’s Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) said Wednesday it was investigating the attack and theft of computers from the headquarters of the Union of Journalists, vowing to “do everything” to bring those responsible to justice.

“The matter has reached the authorities, a theft has occurred in the institution, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, as it already does, collects evidence at the crime scene and initiates competent investigative actions to establish the authorship of the material and take measures to detain and prosecute any criminals,” said Manuel Haliva, Director of Institutional Communications and Press at SIC.

Responding to some complaints about the CCCR’s delay in investigating cases involving certain political organizations and representatives of civil society, he believes that every process is a process, and “every case is a case.”

“The JCC does not hesitate with its actions, as soon as the news of a crime reaches our pickets, it is the JCC that initiates all legal procedures to open a criminal process and creates conditions for solving the crime, causing these incidents to be immediately brought to the attention of the authorities,” he stressed. .

The general secretary of the Union of Journalists of Angola (SJA) this week deemed media workers under “attack” by announcing a repudiation march on the 17th of this month announcing a second attack on the organization’s headquarters where the main computer was stolen. .

Teixeira Candido said that two more journalists from Angolan and foreign media were also robbed this year and their computers were stolen from their homes.

Teixeira Candido felt that union activity was “not easy”, reporting on the cases of other union activists, namely the doctors’ and the Supreme Court’s unions, who were subject to repression, situations that represent “the conditions a union goes through”.

Last month, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), Angolan’s largest opposition party, condemned acts of aggression against Ludmila Pinto, the wife of UNITA-affiliated Angolan activist and journalist Claudio Emanuel Pinto.

Ludmila Pinto was allegedly the victim of harassment and three physical assaults, namely attacks by unidentified persons with sharp objects, the last of which took place “in broad daylight, on a public road, within two months”, according to UNITA.