Angola: the current president pardons the son of the former president. The why

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

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As part of next year’s fiftieth anniversary of Angola’s independence, President Joao Lourenço granted a pardon to around fifty convicts, including the son of former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement.

According to the decree posted on the presidency’s Facebook page, this pardon is part of a spirit of “harmony, clemency, indulgence, concord and fraternity”.