Several members of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique were arrested and tried, without legal or procedural guarantees, for having facilitated food logistics to their monitors at polling stations during the last elections held in the city of Inhambane.

Thirty-eight members of the MDM party were sentenced to two months in prison and to fines, and were sent to various prisons in the country.

According to the Party Chairman Daviz Simango these actions are meant to intimidate members of opposition parties and to defy the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

Such actions represent a violation of democratic freedoms and should not be accepted by the international community.