The trial of seven MDM members in Nampula relating to
the incidents on 25 September was postponed from today (Monday) until Friday.
The two men still being held by police were released on the grounds that they
had been held illegally.
The trial was due to begin today in the Nampula city
court 2nd section of seven men, two of whom were being held by the police. But
when the provincial police failed to present Francisco Adriano in court, the
judge and the prosecutor went to the police command. After a meeting of more
than an hour, the police agreed to bring Adriano in court.
But since he had not been allowed to see a lawyer
since his arrest on 26 September, the judge agreed to postpone the hearing
until Friday. The two still being held were then sent to a criminal instruction
judge to have their detention regularised, but he released both of them on the
grounds that their detention until now was improper.
Meanwhile MDM sources accuse the Criminal
Investigation Police (PIC) of a campaign of harassment aimed indirectly at
Mahamuno Amurane of MDM, elected mayor of Nampula in December 2013. For the
past week PIC has been summoning members of MDM for questioning, including an
MDM candidate for parliament and the representative and the mobilising
secretary in Nampula city. One person who has been recovering from an accident
has been interviewed in hospital and without a lawyer present. Questions tend
to be the same, about who ordered young men from MDM to interrupt the ceremony
on 25 September with the mock coffin of Frelimo candidate Filipe Nyusi. MDM
says PIC is trying to pin the blame on Amurane.
MDM is also concerned that police told the press on 25
September that they had arrested three MDM members, but have consistently
refused to identify two of them. MDM says it does not know who they are, and if
they are still being held.
MDM has also accused the police of having beaten and
whipped some of those arrested.
Source: Mozambique political process bulletin Number
NE-52 7 October 2014
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