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3:38 CAT | 12 May 2021
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The Mozambican student detained on Tuesday after participating in a peaceful demonstration in Maputo has been released, a source from a non-governmental organization (NGO) following the case told Lusa.
“He has already been released,” director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) Adriano Nuvunga explained.
After being taken first to the 7th Precinct police station in Maputo, Valdo José, 27, a student at the Pedagogical University, was taken by police car to Maputo City Court for scrutiny by the judicial authorities.
According to the director of the NGO, the student was not brought before the court, the authorities limiting themselves to saying that the young man could “go home”, adding: “He is free.”
In all, about 30 students responded on Tuesday morning to calls on social media for a demonstration in central Maputo against the new Statute for Parliamentary Officials and Agents, but were dispersed by armed police.
The demonstration was organized in protest at the approval of perks for parliamentary officials and agents during a time of economic crisis in the country.
Nuvunga was unable to specify the grounds for the arrest, and attempts by Lusa to contact the Mozambican police proved unsuccessful.
Due to the crisis in the country, the perks and subsidies provided for in the statute have attracted widespread criticism, since they were approved by the Assembly of the Republic in the past week.
Meanwhile, the debate on the bill scheduled for Wednesday had by this morning been removed from the parliamentary agenda.
Watch the CDD Moçambique report below.
Source: Lusa / CDD Moçambique on Facebook
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