Angolans celebrate independence in Lisbon (photos) – Residents Angolans in Portugal were on Saturday, meeting within the Superior Management Institute in Lisbon for another day of celebration of the 40th anniversary of independence that African country.
Convened by Ambassador José Marcos Barrica, the approximately 200 people who were in the room sang the hymn with evident emotion.
Crowded buses arrived from Porto, but also the Algarve. Angolans coming north to south of Portugal joined in a special celebration with the theme “Independence, Peace, National Unity and Development”, concepts that have always been present in the discourse of Marcos Barrica.
Even before it fell to the Consul General in Lisbon, Cecilia Baptista, to welcome all those who said this to the notice of Jose Marcos Barrica, ambassador of Angola in Lisbon, asking that the day was to “reflect on the 40 years of independence and the paths that must follow the great nation, that is Angola “.
Marcos Barrica made then a trip to the struggles over the past four decades, speaking on “current political and socio-economic situation of Angola fruit of 40 years of independence”.
In June, it was reported the arrest of 15 people during a demonstration in Luanda. Marcos Barrica did not escape the issue, saying that “young people who called political activists acted, rather, outside the law.”
“The right to demonstrate is enshrined in the Constitution and Angolans should exercise it when they feel the need. But the Constitution also says that freedom of expression and freedom of information are as limits rights of all to the good name, honor and reputation, image and privacy of private family intimacy “, also said the ambassador.
Marcos Barrica also argued that the term of pretrial detention are being observed and concluded the matter forcefully: “Sometimes the speaker who claims the right to manifest, forgets that this law requires you a duty, which is the duty to respect the rights of others. ”
Photos Carla Sedge / ASF
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