Mozambique: Authorities must bring perpetrators to justice for reckless and deadly protest crackdown

Rights group publishes report on human rights violations in Mozambique amid post-election crackdown

Amnesty International released an extensive report on Wednesday denouncing human rights violations in Mozambique following the 2024 elections. In the report, Amnesty International evaluated human rights abuses committed by Mozambican security forces during the post-election crackdown. The report concludes that the use of force by Mozambican authorities was reckless and unnecessary, amounting to violations of international norms. Khanyo Farise, A…

Mozambique: Authorities must bring perpetrators to justice for reckless and deadly protest crackdown

Mozambican security forces used reckless and unnecessary force in a widespread crackdown on protests following last October’s election, resulting in unlawful killings and devastating injuries, Amnesty International said in a new report. The report, Protest under attack: Human rights violations during Mozambique’s post-2024 election crackdown, documents security forces firing lethal weapons, tear gas and kinetic impact projectiles (commonly known…

The organization considers the repression of the protests against Frelimo “disproportionate” and “shameful”. Amnesty International analyzed videos, photographs and interviews to accuse the Mozambican police of the use of illegal force.

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Amnesty International has called on the Mozambican government to investigate allegations of human rights violations committed by its security forces during the 2024 election outcome protests. In a report published today, the organisation says it found that security forces used reckless and unnecessary force on protestors resulting in the deaths of over 300 people and injuring thousands. On the 21st of October, protests erupted across the country…

The Mozambican security forces have used force unwisely and unwarrantedly in the context of the widespread repression of demonstrations following the October 2024 elections, causing illegal killings and serious injuries, Amnesty International writes in a new report entitled Protest under attack: Human rights violations during Mozambique's post-2024 election crackdown, this report reveals that the security forces have used lethal weapons, fired t…