The President of the Technical Commission for Inclusive Dialogue (COTE), Edson Macuácua, assures that a pardon will be granted to those arrested as part of the widespread electoral protests between 2024 and 2025. "One of the aims of the dialogue is national reconciliation, and to this end, one of the requirements laid down in the commitment is the granting of a pardon...
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Selective pardons run counter to constitutional principles and human rights, according to DECIDE Platform
The DECIDE Platform has issued a warning to the government and the parties that signed the Political Commitment for Inclusive National Dialogue, demanding an immediate review of the pardon clause for those detained in the post-election demonstrations in 2024 and early 2025. According to the organization, the current pardon model is "selective, unconstitutional and incompatible with the principles...
Filipe Nyusi announces Christmas pardons for more than 1,000 inmates
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, has granted pardons to 1119 convicts in prisons throughout the country, with effect from Sunday (22). Speaking yesterday, Thursday (19), in Maputo, during his address to the nation, on the occasion of Christmas (family day) and the end of the year, Nyusi explained that...
Sofala: Prisoners benefit from presidential pardon
Sixty-one inmates at the Savane Open Penitentiary Center in the city of Beira benefited last Saturday from the pardon granted by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi. Through Presidential Decree No. 11/2023, of December 22, Nyusi granted freedom to 897 prisoners across the country, as part of the celebration of Family Day....
"Reintegration. PR grants pardon to 809 prisoners
The Head of State has granted pardons to 809 inmates from different prisons across the country, the Presidency of the Republic announced yesterday in a statement. "In determining this measure of clemency, the head of state was moved by the spirit of humanism, respect and protection of the dignity of the human person and by the solidarity that characterizes the State of...
President of the Republic grants "pardon" to more than 60 suspected terrorists in Cabo Delgado
The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, on Tuesday (20), granted a kind of pardon to 64 people suspected of terrorism, and asked the population to deeply forgive those who leave the ranks of armed groups in Cabo Delgado, a province rich in gas and target of terrorist attacks five years ago. Nyusi presented, during...




