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Mozambique: Religious leader sentenced for holding services in Namadende, Macanga – Noticias
1:20 CAT | 04 Jun 2020
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The District Judicial Court of Macanga, in Tete province, has sentenced a religious leader to a 45-day jail sentence, converted into a fine, for violating the presidential state of emergency decree.
At the trial on Friday, that court established that the religious leader had invited and facilitated the entry of believers from Malawi to services in Namadende, Macanga district, on the border with Malawi.
Macanga’s administrator Assane Ussene revealed that community leaders had denounced the breach of the presidential decree, and called the cleric’s attitude “strange”, insofar as the authorities had been disseminating messages about preventative measures everywhere, including border districts.
“This conviction should serve as a warning to all citizens who fail to comply with Covid-19 preventative measures in the district of Macanga,” Ussene warned, observing that this was the first case of a religious leader being convicted of contempt of Covid-19 preventative measures in that northern district of Tete.
Source: Noticias
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