- Organisation: Radio Ecclesia
- Case: Equipment/Property Seizure
- Culprit: police officers
- Country: Angola
- City: Launda
On August 9, 1999, four plainclothes police officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (DNIC) raided the studios of Radio Ecclesia, a Roman Catholic FM station in Luanda, while the station was rebroadcasting a BBC interview with UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi. Armed with search and arrest warrants, the police officers seized Radio Ecclesia’s transmission equipment and the recording of the BBC interview. They then arrested chief editor Paulo Juliao and two other Radio Ecclesia journalists, Laurinda Tavares and Filipe Joaquim