{"id":5385,"date":"2024-11-28T17:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/?post_type=petition&p=5385"},"modified":"2025-02-24T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:22:44","slug":"tiktoker-jailed-for-criticizing-president","status":"publish","type":"petition","link":"https:\/\/www.amnesty.or.th\/en\/petition\/tiktoker-jailed-for-criticizing-president\/","title":{"rendered":"TikToker jailed for criticizing president\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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TikToker jailed for criticizing president\u00a0<\/h1>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t
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Neth, a mother of two young children, was jailed for criticizing Angola\u2019s president on TikTok. She was summarily tried, convicted, and sentenced to six months in prison \u2013 later increased to two years. Sign the petition and call on the authorities for her immediate and unconditional release.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s the problem?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At home, 32-year-old Ana da Silva Miguel is a singer and devoted mother to her two young children. But on TikTok she is better known as \u201cNeth Nahara\u201d, a fearless and fun social media influencer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing up amid numerous challenges she became disillusioned with life being so hard. She couldn\u2019t understand why a country with so much potential let so many live in poverty. Fed up with the lack of schools, employment, and opportunity, she took to social media and with her new persona \u201cNeth Nahara\u201d began encouraging women to seek education and independence, and bravely disclosed that she was living with HIV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Neth went live on TikTok, openly criticizing President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o. But the Angolan authorities are using a controversial new law to silence critical voices like Neth\u2019s. The very next day she was arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neth now faces years in prison, for \u201cinsulting\u201d the president. Being torn from her children is agonizing enough, but on top of this the authorities initially denied her vital HIV medication, only allowing this after repeated requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the pandemic, Angolan people took to the streets to express their discontent with the president\u2019s leadership, but the authorities wouldn\u2019t listen. Instead, Neth and others like her are arbitrarily detained and mistreated because they dare to speak out. Neth\u2019s children miss her every day.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can you do to help?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sign the petition and call on the Angolan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Neth Nahara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ THE PETITION LETTER BELOW<\/summary>\n

President of Angola   
Pal\u00e1cio Presidencial    
Cidade Alta   
Rua 17 de Setembro   
Luanda 
Angola  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your Excellency <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am writing on behalf of Ana da Silva Miguel, known as \u201cNeth Nahara\u201d. In August 2023 Neth took to TikTok criticizing your conduct as president. The next day she was arrested and subsequently tried, convicted, and sentenced to six months in prison, which was later increased to two years. Your authorities are using a<\/s>Article 333 of the Penal Code to make legitimate criticism of you a criminal offence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I demand that Ana da Silva Miguel is immediately and unconditionally released, since her conviction and ongoing arbitrary detention stem solely from the peaceful exercise of her human rights, including the right to freedom of expression.  \u202f  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yours sincerely <\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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