Angola 2014 violations & victories 2 February Queirós Anastácio Chilúvia, deputy editor of the private Radio Despertar, arrested after entering police headquarters in Luanda seeking comment on prisoners’ screams he heard while walking past the station. 28 May Rádio Despertar journalist Adérito Pascual briefly arrested requesting official statement for a live broadcast on a violent operation to remove street traders. Police seized his phone, recorder, and identification and government agents forced him to delete his videos. He was released after two hours and his equipment returned. 24 September Álvaro Victoria, journalist with privately owned weekly newspaper Novo Jornal, arrested at S. Paulo market in Luanda, where he filmed police beating street traders. Police assaulted, threatened and then detained him for two hours, after which he was released without charge. 23 November Youth activist Laurinda Gouveia endured two hours of brutal attack at the hands of police and state security and was arrested for taking pictures of police mistreating two youth demonstrators at Independence Square in Luanda. 7 February Queirós Anastácio Chilúvia, deputy editor of the private Radio Despertar, received six-month suspended jail sentence for broadcasting the shouts of detainees calling for help for one of their fellow detainees, who was ill. 4 July Reporter Gonçalves Vieira from Radio Despertar forced to leave the National Assembly and cease broadcasting during a public session in which they were holding a discussion titled, “The Role of Public Media in a Democratic State.” 11 October At least 12 youth protesters arrested in Luanda and several others injured from police assaults. 15 December Writer and journalist Rafael Marques de Morais to appear in court in Luanda on criminal defamation charges in connection with his 2011 book about human rights violations in Angola’s diamond mining industry, entitled “Blood Diamonds: Corruption and Torture in Angola.”