E/CN.4/2001/66 page 16 Angola 39. By letter dated 5 October 2000, the Special Rapporteur advised the Government that he had received information on the following individual cases. 40. Thaddeus Mubili, a Namibian citizen, was allegedly killed by members of the Angolan Armed Forces (Forças Armadas de Angola) (FAA) in Mushangara, West Caprivi region, on 22 January 2000. He was allegedly severely beaten before being shot dead. 41. Josefa Lamberga, a correspondent for Voice of America, was slapped in the face twice and had her ear pulled by a soldier after she sought access to the military recruitment centre at the premises of the Transmissions Battalion in late April 1999. The assault appeared to be connected to an interview in which interviewees alleged that white people and people of mixed race were exempt from the recruitment process. She presented a complaint to the military court. 42. Father Leonardo Gaspar Chivanje was reportedly handcuffed and beaten on the head by a police officer in Humpata, Huila, after a minor traffic accident. The officer was subsequently reported to have been suspended from duty, but was not known to have been brought to justice. 43. Cristóvão Lwemba, a Rádio Ecclesia correspondent in Cabinda, was beaten by two men in police uniform on 18 May 2000. He was on his way home after covering the celebrations for the Pope’s 80th birthday at the Cabinda Cathedral. He reported the incident to the police, who said that they would investigate. 44. Gilberto Neto, a journalist, was reportedly detained for about eight hours on 3 September 1999 in connection with an article indicating that the police had threatened to close Rádio Ecclesia and that the church should not involve itself in politics. On one occasion the police reportedly pushed against his mouth the wooden panel used to identify the person being photographed. This cut his lip. 45. Machadoe Irmão, who had worked for Actual until April 1999, was reportedly beaten on 17 May 1999 by uniformed police officers in a patrol. It is believed that when the police found out that he was a journalist they accused him of being one of those who “support the enemy” and “say bad things” about the Government. 46. On 2 July 1999, two television crews were arrested after they had filmed police exchanging shots with suspected armed robbers in Luanda. The film reportedly showed the apparently unlawful killing of one of the alleged robbers. A witness said that the arrests were carried out by a group of plain-clothes police who seized the cameras of the crews from Televisão Popular de Angola (TPA) and a Portuguese television station, Rádio Televisão Portuguesa. Members of the TPA crew were said to have been held at a street corner and made to kneel with their hands in the air. They were reportedly insulted and threatened and some were kicked and hit with machine-gun butts. Subsequently, the chief of the police operational command reportedly apologized to the journalists and returned the cameras, having removed the film.