Helena Victoria Pereira, a member of Angolan civil society, spoke with one of the lawyers representing Laura Macedo and the remaining detainees - who have not yet begun to be heard - and said that they are the target of "seven charges related to bodily harm and crimes of property damage and destruction of property.
According to Lusa, there is damage to a car, the burning of a tax tent and two motorcycles that will have been damaged.
Helena Pereira reported that the day was occupied, in the Provincial Court of Luanda, to discuss previous issues, and the hearing of the defendants was not initiated.
"Previous issues were discussed between the lawyers and the judge, related to legal assumptions and humanitarian conditions in the jails, so there were no inquiries," she said.
The hearings, suspended this Monday close to 8pm, are expected to resume on Tuesday at 9am.
"If the previous issues are overcome, the defendants and the declarants will be heard," which includes six injured police officers, he said.
Among the more than 100 detainees are youths from civic movements, activists and other demonstrators. There were also six journalists arrested, three of whom were released just this Monday without explanation.
The attempt at a demonstration organized by civil society youth, with the support of leaders of the largest opposition party - the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) - was frustrated by the authorities, resulting in 103 arrests, injuries to police officers, and undisclosed numbers of demonstrators, in addition to the destruction of the means of law enforcement.
The protests were also marked by the throwing of stones, the placing of barricades on the road with garbage bins and burning tires by the demonstrators.
The march, called by civil society activists, was joined by UNITA and other opposition forces and aimed at demanding better living conditions, more jobs and the holding of the first local elections in Angola.
According to the Secretary of State of the Interior Ministry, Salvador Rodrigues, who denied the existence of any death resulting from the event, 90 men and 13 women are arrested and six police officers were injured in clashes with demonstrators.
On Friday, the government issued new measures to combat and prevent covid-19, in a decree on the State of Public Calamity, which among several restrictions, prohibited street gatherings of more than five people.
The arrival of the detainees at the Provincial Court of Luanda was greeted with cries of "Liberdade, Já" by several dozen young people who concentrated in front of the building throughout the day and only demobilized at the beginning of the night, leading some moments of tension with the police.
