Mozambican Human Rights activist says she is being threatened over Saturday’s protest

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Mozambican Human Rights activist says she is being threatened over Saturday’s protest

8:53 CAT | 15 Jun 2016

O País / Alice Mabota

Civil society organisations call for a peaceful demonstration on Saturday in the city of Maputo. However, Alice Mabota, one of the organisers of the event, says she is “under pressure and threat for the march not to take place,” reports O País, while news website Zitamar specifies that Mabota said today that she has been receiving death threats by telephone since Tuesday.

Therefore, the President of the Human Rights League of Mozambique calls for people participating in the march to keep their mobile phones permanently active film the organisers of the protest on Saturday, June 18. Meanwhile, Mabota warns that “the whole world is prepared; after receiving the threats – I have mechanisms to trigger the alert abroad – I have informed the world, so that it was aware that I was threatened, ” said Mabota, cited by the same source.

In all, ten civil society organisations have signed the official letter communicating a peaceful demonstration for Saturday, but the number involved is much higher.

“For the Right to Hope” is the theme chosen and, as was announced at the press conference, this is another activism action for the people to express what is good and what is bad.

“We, as civil society organisations, organise citizens to express what they like and do not like, as long as the manifestation of that expression is conducted in a peaceful manner, an orderly way, without insults and without destruction of property, so that those in power see which is the satisfaction and the dissatisfaction of citizens, “Alice Mabota said, cited by O País.

There are several issues that are at the heart of the event, from the political and military situation, public insecurity, abductions and kidnappings and the scandal of debt contracted with government guarantees.

“We join this march to raise our voices and say that we have hope and to express the wish that the rightful institutions to do their part in terms of clarification of the issues,” said Paula Monjane, Director of CESC, also cited in O País report.

The march will start near Eduardo Mondlane’s statue, in Eduardo Mondlane Avenue. It will then follow, through Karl Marx and Ho Chi Minh Avenues, to Praça da Independencia.

Source: O País / Zitamar