Statement by François Zimeray on the opening of the trial of Carlos Manuel de São Vicente
In view of the opening of the trial of Angolan businessman Carlos Manuel de São Vicente in Luanda, Angola, his human rights lawyer, François Zimeray, recalls the context in which the instruction was carried out and calls for Angolan justice to respect the rules of due process.
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Fighting Corruption Revisited: Five Years of Selective Injustice
By Irene Alexandra Neto I write not only as a citizen concerned with justice in Angola, but also as the wife of Carlos Manuel de São Vicente, who has been living this reality in a direct and painful way for five years. The fight against corruption was presented in 2017 as a central banner of […]
Decorations, “the São Vicente case”
On the verge of completing our first 50 years as a nation, we are being “bombarded” with so many decorations that no one can any longer understand the merit of those who receive them. Perhaps because we live in a country where, more or less officially, “the goat eats where it is tied,” we have […]