"None of the arguments presented by the provincial government [of Luanda] are used as a justification to prevent the demonstration, besides that they would have 24 hours to do so", said the rapper, known as Ikonoklasta, one of the activists condemned in the famous process 15 + 2, in 2016, accused of preparing a coup d'état against the Government of the MPLA of José Eduardo dos Santos.
"The letter [of the march organizers] was received on the 4th, the answer is coming today. The Government also has to abide by the laws, it cannot demand only from the citizens and, in this case, if they wanted to invoke these fundamentals they had to invoke in writing and submit to each of the subscribers, at the addresses indicated by them. Having not done so, the law says that the demonstration is automatically legitimated and any other decision is extemporaneous, it does not apply ", said the activist.
The protest, which aims to demand the improvement of social conditions and local elections in 2021, was called by the organizers of the demonstration last October 24, strongly repressed by the police, which ended with the arrest of a hundred protesters, including some journalists .
The promoters of the protest on Wednesday, the 45th anniversary of Angola's independence, told Lusa that the provincial government of Luanda has banned the demonstration, but they still intend to go out.
"What will always happen will happen, people will still go out - people who know they can defy an illegitimate order - and there will be confusion, but it is not generated by the people who defend their rights. This is an evasion of rights that are trying to do ", commented Luaty Beirão.
The activist pointed out, on the other hand, that in the previous presidential decree on the situation of public calamity, there were already limitations on gatherings on the public road - previously limited to ten people and now to five - but both diplomas contain an article that differentiates gatherings from meetings and other activities.
"There is an article that differentiates these public gatherings from acts like meetings and activities. They suppressed the word demonstrations in the last decree, but the law is the same. They [the Government] are forcing this idea of gatherings, to give an idea that they are prohibited , but this meeting, which is a manifestation, is not part of the gatherings. Both decrees have this distinction ", he stressed.
