The parliamentary group of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) underlines that the situation has been monitored “attentively”, referring to the last case, that of TV Camunda News, a digital channel on the YouTube platform and other social networks “which is on the verge of ceasing to produce and broadcast content of an informative and political nature for an indefinite period, following a new interrogation to which Mr. David Boio, owner of the project”.
According to the UNITA parliamentary group, citing news on social networks, a week ago, David Boio was, for the second time, called to the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC).
“The first time took place in October 2022. Even before this notification, SIC staff had already carried out two unusual 'visits' to the TV Camunda News facilities, limiting themselves to addressing, not David Boio, but technicians on duty, about whom they were the 'true financiers of the project'”, the UNITA parliamentary group stresses in a note.
This news, according to the note, “consolidates the concerns and complaints presented several times by the UNITA parliamentary group about the retreat of the exercise of journalistic activity in Angola, whose freedoms of expression, information and press are muzzled by the executive, with harassment, arrests and death threats against journalists, the confiscation of means of work and the closure of private media outlets”.
“In view of this situation, the UNITA parliamentary group will request an urgent parliamentary hearing of the ministers of the Interior and of the Media, to obtain clarification from these holders, so that the threats to the freedoms of Angolan media professionals can be put to an end. , a fundamental pillar of the democratic State based on the rule of law”, emphasizes the document.
The communiqué concludes with a manifestation of solidarity by the UNITA parliamentary group “with all professionals from Camunda News and other media”, reiterating “their availability, commitment and commitment to the dignity of the journalistic class and the free exercise of their activity within the framework of the Constitution and the law”.
