An Angolan teenager Nito Alves (17 years old) who has been in prison for two months awaiting trial for insulting president Jose Eduardo dos Santos has started a hunger strike to pressure authorities to release him. Alves was arrested on September 12 for printing slogans on t-shirts called a president 'a disgusting dictator'. Alves is a member of a youth movement which wants Dos Santos to resign.
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