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Mozambique: Matavel Murder - Killing Was Politically Motivated, Says Son
AIM, 20 May 2020
Licinio Matavel, son of the murdered activist Anastacio Matavel, on Tuesday told the Gaza provincial court that, while he did not know exactly why his father was killed, he… Read more »
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Mozambique: Matavel Murder - Man Who Lent the Getaway Car Testifies
AIM, 18 May 2020
Ricardo Manganhe, a teacher who works for the Chibuto Municipal Council in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, on Friday confirmed that he had lent the car used in the murder… Read more »
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Mozambique: Matavel Murder - 'I Only Drove the Car', Says Assassin
AIM, 14 May 2020
A second member of the death squad that murdered civil society and election observation activist Anastacio Matavel on 7 October last year, has denied all knowledge of the… Read more »
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Mozambique: NGO Demands Publication of Dispatch Revoking Promotions
AIM, 4 February 2020
A prominent Mozambican NGO, the Centre for Development and Democracy (CDD), has called on the police to produce the dispatches revoking the promotion of three members of the death… Read more »
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Mozambique: Matavel Murder - Trial Set for Early May
AIM, 16 April 2020
The Gaza Provincial Court, in southern Mozambique, has set the second week of May as the date for the trial of the police officers who murdered civil society and election… Read more »
Police Officers on Trial for Murder of Mozambique Poll Observer
Six members of Mozambique's elite police unit have gone on trial for the murder of Anastacio Matavel, a prominent election observer who was shot dead at the wheel of his car in Xai-Xai shortly before the nationwide October 2019 elections. Half a dozen elite police officers have testified in court, four of whom have confessed to taking part in a plot to murder Matavel.
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An escalating insurgency, attacks on political campaigners and a terrified population have set a worrying scene for Mozambique's election on October 15. While the poll looks like a ... Read more »
