Luanda - National Assembly (AN)’s Specialised Commissions appreciated and voted Friday in favour of a Joint Opinion report on the Amnesty Law Proposal, a legislative initiative of the Angolan Executive.
The Bill will be discussed and approved in general terms at the 2nd Ordinary Plenary Meeting of the National Assembly, scheduled for
Thursday (24).
Speaking to the press, the MP from the opposition UNITA party, Manuel Fonseca, considered the Amnesty Law Proposal a gesture of generosity by the Angolan Head of State.
"The Head of State intends, under the terms of this Bill, in the first instance, to grant amnesty for the crimes and, in another moment, to grant pardon for the sentences not only of the cases already condemned, but also cases in which the proceedings are pending at the judicial bodies”, he stated.
He hopes that, in the specialty, the law will be discussed article by article "and, perhaps, will improve certain aspects of the proposal presented by the Head of State".
The amnesty bill will benefit citizens who committed common law or military crimes between November 2015 and November 11, 2022, with sentences of up to ten years.
The Bill does not cover, among others, intentional crimes committed with violence, money laundering and embezzlement, trafficking in human beings and arms.
