On Monday, Dito Dali, one of the organizers of the march that wants to demand better living conditions and local elections in 2021, had told Lusa that the activists maintained their intention to go out into the streets, despite the ban, which he said was based on false arguments.
In the statement sent on Monday to the eight promoters of the demonstration, to which Lusa had access, the GPL refers that, according to the law, the right to assemble and demonstrate requires compliance with certain requirements, including the signature of five of the organizers, identified with name, profession and address.
It also indicates that the processions and parades cannot take place before 7 pm on weekdays of the week and invokes the last presidential decree regarding the exceptional measures to be applied during the situation of public calamity that prevents gatherings of more than five people on the public road.
According to the GPL, "the identification of some of the prosecutors does not contain a specific address, nor is the precise number of demonstrators informed and the time indicated is not permitted by law", although Wednesday is a public holiday, when Angola celebrates 45 years independence, with several official activities scheduled.
"We reiterate that we are going to go out on the street, because the police are being exploited", accused Dito Dalí.
The young activist stressed that the organizers already have experience of situations like this, so this time they were "careful" in the communication they sent. "The police have been ordered to ban the demonstration, but we are going to take to the streets," he guaranteed.
The Portuguese-Angolan musician and activist Luaty Beirão, heard by Lusa on Monday, also considered that the ban on walking lacks a legal basis and underlined that the Government is also obliged to comply with the laws.
"None of the arguments presented by the provincial government [of Luanda] are justification for preventing the demonstration, other than that they would have 24 hours to do so," the activist and rapper, also known as Ikonoklasta, one of the activists, told Lusa. convicted in the famous 15 + 2 process in 2016, accused of preparing a coup d'état against the government of José Eduardo dos Santos' MPLA.
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 .
