The CCE's position, expressed in a statement released this Friday, comes in the face of "recurring attacks on journalists by republican forces" in the country and the wave of assaults and intimidation that professionals and the trade union have been targets of.
The national headquarters of the Union of Angolan Journalists (SJA), in Luanda, was robbed twice, between November and December, by alleged criminals who took and later returned, on the spot, the body's computer.
Several journalists have previously complained of assaults, aggressions and intimidation, such as the case of the general secretary of the SJA, Teixeira Cândido, who claims to have received "intimidating messages".
The "worrying" scenario that journalists are experiencing led the SJA to call a protest march, scheduled for this Saturday, in Luanda, under the motto "Quem Tem Ado da Liberdade".
The CCE expresses "full support for the SJA, in defense of the class, whose activity carried out within the framework of the law represents "a structuring pillar of the democratic State and the rule of law, under construction for three decades".
"The purpose of freedom of expression and information embodied in the fundamental rights and duties of the Constitution, becomes effective with the freedom of the press, the journalist's driving factor, as a mediator of the relationship between the people and the instituted powers", refers in the communicated.
