Renamo MP Venâncio Mondlane submitted a complaint against alleged death squads to the Attorney General's Office on Monday (18).

The letter is about two cases of violations of citizens' freedoms. The first is about the "kidnapping" of the former vice-president of the Municipal Assembly on the island of Mozambique, who suffered physical and mental torture in order to make "confessions", and whose video is circulating on social networks. The second is about a citizen "illegally detained" by the Police of the Republic of Mozambique, in Nacala-Porto, for expressing his political preference "within an internal dispute" within the Renamo party.

Speaking to the press, he explained that he had turned to the OPG because the competent local authorities had failed to take steps to hold the perpetrators accountable.

"In our duty as citizens and, in my case in particular, as a member of parliament, I felt the need and the impulse to file a complaint with the Attorney General's Office," he explained.

Because these are public crimes, and because there are alleged indications that the first was committed at the behest of the President of Renamo, Ossufo Momade, the complaint was submitted to the Commander of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique; the National Human Rights Commission; the Central Public Ethics Commission; the Ombudsman; the President of Renamo; the President of the Assembly of the Republic; Amnesty National; and Human Whatch Right.