Mozambique: Bar Association Demands Action Against Those Who Ran Over a Protester

Maputo — The Mozambican Bar Association (OAM) has called on the state authorities to take criminal proceedings against the military and police officers involved in the running down of a young woman who was participating in the demonstrations called by the presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane in order to protest against the allegedly fraudulent results of the elections held on 9 October.

The tragedy took place last Wednesday, on Eduardo Mondlane Avenue, in central Maputo, when an armoured car…