According to the report by the Angolan non-governmental organization, consulted this Tuesday by Lusa, in the period observed, there was a worsening in relation to the previous quarter, with summary executions and one death due to torture allegedly carried out by agents assigned to the Criminal Investigation Service (SIC), within a National Police station.
The trivialization of the legal asset "life" is an indication of the nature of the State that prevails in Angola, highlights the report, which reports cases registered in the months of April, May and June, in the provinces of Luanda, Bié and Lunda Norte.
Young people, especially activists, are the main victims of the acts recorded during this period, according to the same document.
Mudei describes that, at the beginning of June, at least 10 young people and teenagers living in the Vidrul neighborhood, municipality of Cacuaco, were kidnapped by alleged SIC agents, with their bodies found, days later, in a hospital morgue, "with obvious signs of torture and bullet holes".
"There are reports of seven other people executed in other neighborhoods of Cacuaco in the same week", reads the document, which states that there is "strong evidence" that suggests a violation of the principle of prohibition of the death penalty or summary execution for those mentioned cases.
There is also reference in the report to the death of three members of the same family (father, son and grandson) "executed at close range" in the municipality of Cazenga, in Luanda, by a SIC agent, as confirmed, at the time, by the voice of this service, Manuel Halaiwa, stating that the author, who at the time was partly uncertain, mistook them for "miscreants".
Halaiwa, quoted at the time by Jornal de Angola, assured that the victims were not criminals, but rather members of the same family, who were leaving a death and upon arriving home, due to lack of keys, one tried to climb the wall, having been confused with marginals.
At least five young people were detained and subjected to torture and degrading treatment at police stations, in May, in the municipality of Kilamba Kiaxi, in Luanda, after being surprised at their workplace, and, 14 days after "private imprisonment", one of them ended up dying, the report states.
The document, prepared by Mudei in partnership with the community organization Mizangala Tu Yenu Kupolo and Handeka, attaches images of some of the victims and expresses opposition to the "permanent state of savagery in which the written law is a dead letter".
It also reports cases of intimidation, psychological pressure and movement restrictions on a radio commentator in the province of Bié, acts allegedly carried out by local police officers in April.
An activist was detained in Lunda Norte by SIC agents, in May, for reporting alleged acts of corruption by those responsible for the Kwenda Program (monetary transfer program for vulnerable families), he adds, also reporting scenes of intimidation of another activist in Luanda, in June.
The arbitrary arrests of civic activists and summary executions of citizens, "in addition to being worrying, require urgent intervention to prevent them from happening again and to prevent their perpetrators from going unpunished", argues Mudei.
"Unfortunately, in the middle of 2024, we are experiencing situations of social decadence that force us to prepare reports of this type, on a routine basis, with the aim of trying to draw attention and stop some of these aberrant practices, holding perpetrators responsible", highlights the organization.
Mudei calls for a State "where the life of each person is valued as an inalienable asset, where constitutional rights and other legislation in favor of human rights are strictly respected and where defense and security bodies fully understand their mission and function: protect, care for the life and dignity of the human person, instead of acting like criminals, with arbitrariness and violence".
