{"id":24910,"date":"2022-08-17T15:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/civil-society-demands-law-to-safeguard-the-right-to-hold-demonstrations"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:35:35","slug":"civil-society-demands-law-to-safeguard-the-right-to-hold-demonstrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/civil-society-demands-law-to-safeguard-the-right-to-hold-demonstrations","title":{"rendered":"Civil society demands law to safeguard the right to hold demonstrations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>At a time when the Mozambican police authorities routinely prohibit peaceful demonstrations in the country, civil society is advocating the implementation of law safeguarding the right to demonstrate.<\/p>\n

Civil society says that police intervention to prevent the exercise of the right to peaceful demonstration has been characterised by arbitrary arrests, physical attacks and shootings.<\/p>\n

The executive director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Adriano Nuvunga, insists that this must be stopped, and says that a \u2018popular action\u2019 law would restore the exercise of popular democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all, what\u2019s happening to the legal infrastructure for the non-realization of the right to demonstrate? What\u2019s happening to the police? We are here to discuss the possibility of popular action,\u201d Nuvunga said at a civil society meeting on Thursday (11-08).<\/p>\n

Nuvunga challenged the police to contribute to the exercise of democracy in Mozambique, highlighting the absence of security forces at the event in which he was participating.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police should be here to monitor and facilitate the exercise of citizenship. [\u2026] There is no democracy without the right to demonstrate,\u201d he commented.<\/p>\n

Law of popular action<\/b><\/p>\n

The president of the Human Rights Commission of the Mozambican Bar Association, Firoza Zacarias, says that the journey towards a \u2018popular action\u2019 law has already begun, finding it an urgent necessity, \u201cconsidering that we are no longer expressing ourselves at any time, only when it is for political purposes\u201d.<\/p>\n

For lawyer Hermenegildo Chambal, a popular action law would be instrumental in exercising citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an instrument that can allow citizens to participate directly in the life of democracy. This idea, which is simple to formulate, makes a lot of sense in the Mozambican context, especially because public intervention mechanisms are very ineffective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lawyer and human rights activist Jo\u00e3o Nhampossa also has no doubt about what such a law could bring to the exercise of democracy in Mozambique. \u201cIt can serve to materialise the Constitution of the Republic, which already provides for the right of popular action to defend a series of rights and public interests that concern us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Police brutality and intimidation<\/b><\/p>\n

The president of the Ecologist Party \u2013 Land Movement (PEC-MT), Jo\u00e3o Massango, himself the victim of a police beating in 2016 for organising a peaceful demonstration, regrets the attitude of the Mozambican police, saying that, by acting in this way, they only create fear among people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe demonstration, at the time, was boycotted, because we were living at a time when elections were being called on social media. We wanted to end this cycle of faceless manifestations. That\u2019s why we took on this responsibility,\u201d Massango explained. \u201cSince then, little has changed \u2013 we continue to endure the same scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Massango, violation of the freedom of expression is a consequence of the course of the dictatorship that the government has taken. \u201cWe have a dictatorial regime that uses force to scare away or intimidate. We live in a state of intimidation,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) have reinforced patrols in view of calls for demonstrations in protest against the high cost of living in the country and the escalating price of road tolls, among other reasons.<\/p>\n

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