Lack of infrastructures limits performance of military courts

 Lobito - Military courts face numerous difficulties to operate, due to the lack of infrastructures that dignify their justice operators, ANGOP learnt on Friday.

This is one of the conclusions of the two-day 19th methodological and balance meeting of Military Jurisdiction Courts, held in Lobito City, central Benguela Province, under the slogan “Military Courts for a quick and efficient justice”.

 According to the document sent to ANGOP, the majority of the Military Courts function in rented facilities that the budgets of the Military Supreme Court have to bear.

It became clear that the military magistrates continue to defend the basic principles of the military structure, namely hierarchy and discipline. 

The participants, who came from the eighteen provinces of the country, also concluded that the military judicial magistrates should be especially careful with the social networks, being careful about sharing information from non-credible and unverifiable sources. 

The two-day event discussed topics such as information on the evolution of the world political and security situation, entry into force of the Angolan Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and its implication in the Armed Forces. 

The role of the Judge of Guarantees in military jurisdiction, application of the Amnesty Law in military cases, evidences in military criminal process and the Habeas Corpus as a measure of defence of individual freedom, were also among the various topics discussed at the 19th methodological meeting of the Courts of Military Jurisdiction.

Generals, senior and non-commissioned officers of the Angolan Armed Forces were present, with particular emphasis on General Cristo António Salvador Alberto, Venerable Counsellor- Judge and Presiding Judge of the Supreme Military Court (STM), who closed the forum.