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Title Angola: The treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses
Publisher Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country Angola
Publication Date 8 October 1999
Citation / Document Symbol AGO32891.E
Reference 4
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Angola: The treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses

According to the Watch Tower Website, Angola had 38,161 Jehovah's Witnesses in 1998 (n.d).

No reports on the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses in Angola could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please see the list of additional information consulted in researching this Information Request.

Watch Tower Organization. n.d. "1998 Report Jehovah's Witnesses World Wide." <http:www.watchtower.org/statistics/worldwide_report.htm>[Accessed: 10 Oct. 1999]

Additional Sources Consulted

Africa Confidential [London]. January 1998 -September 1999. Vols. 38-40. Nos. 1-25.

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series [Oxford]. January 1998 -January 1999. Vol. 35. Nos. 1-12.

Amnesty International. 1999. Amnesty International Report 1998. New York: Amnesty International USA.

Angola Peace Monitor [London]. October 1998-September 1999. Vols. 5-6. Issue Nos.

1-12. <http://www.anc.org.za/angola> [Accessed: 10 Oct. 1999]

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1998 1999 United States Department of State. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Press.

Keesing's Record of World Events [Cambridge]. January 1998-May 1999. Monthly. Vols. 44-45.

Electronic sources: IRB databases, Internet, LEXIS/NEXIS, World Network Connection (WNC)

Two oral sources consulted did not provide information on the requested subject.

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