A family source has revealed that Glória Nobre, Venâncio Mondlane's financial trustee, is banned from receiving visitors and maintaining contact with the family, according to the Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD).

Nobre has been in police custody since, in unorthodox circumstances, she was "invited" by plainclothes officers to make a statement at the 8th Police Station of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM), in Maputo city.

She has been held in custody at the Civil Prison since March 14, after having been heard at that police station since March 12, when she was questioned by police officers at her home.

Since the day of the arrest, while still at the police station, family members and lawyers have been prevented from communicating with the financier. According to the CDD, this is a pressure strategy by the political regime of the day.

"The lack of clarity about his arrest clearly suggests that we are facing a situation of judicialization of politics, an old strategy of the regime to exert pressure on its political opponents as a way of making them give up the struggle or make them go to negotiations in a position of weakness," reads a CDD Bulletin on Human Rights published yesterday.

For the CDD, the clairvoyance that these are cases controlled by the regime where justice works at the service of politics is proven in similar situations, such as the fact that Frelimo's main opponent, Venâncio Mondlane, was heard by the PGR; his communications advisor, Dinis Tivane, was summoned to make a statement at the Central Office for Organized and Transnational Crime; the case of 2023, in which the Judicial Court of Nampula Province suspended the mayor of Nampula City, Paulo Vahanle, a member of Renamo; and the house arrest and suspension from office of the mayor of Nacala, Raul Novinte, and his communications advisor, Arlindo Chissale, decreed by the Judicial Court of Nacala.

"The use of justice as a weapon for political gain is bad for democracy, as it makes it clear for all the world to see that in Mozambique there is no separation of powers and that the executive rules over the other powers," it reads.