Angolan Police Holds Six Children Aged Seven to 13 in Jail
Six children have been in detention since Thursday at the Luanda Provincial Criminal Investigation Directorate (DPIC), accused of setting alight a Toyota Corolla car. All of those detained are boys under 13 years old. Police from the Sambizanga Division seized them without warrant at 5h00 am on June 18 in Ngola Kiluange district. Police say they were acting on a complaint by the supposed owner of the car, who allegedly had credible evidence but who up to now has not been able to present it to DPIC. Family members of the detained boys say that the owner of the car in question was in the patrol car pointing out the houses to the police. The same man was in the police car when they came to get my son at 5am. It was he who showed them, said António Domingos, whose seven-year-old son Costa Domingos was the youngest of those […]
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