Demonstrators had been arrested during the protests on October 21 and were accused of the crime of bodily harm against state figures. The Pemba court ruled that the crimes had not been proven.

The court in Pemba has acquitted 14 people who had been arrested as part of the demonstrations called by presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane.

During the reading of the sentence, the judge in the case, Madalena Sidumo, explained that the demonstrators were accused of the crime of bodily harm against state figures during the protests against the election results.

The court acquitted the detainees after concluding that the state institutions and state vehicles allegedly vandalized in the protest had not been identified and ruled that the crimes had not been proven.

"The second section of the judicial court of the city of Pemba, in the name of the Republic of Mozambique and the law, decides to dismiss the charge of the Public Prosecutor's Office, which has not been approved, and consequently acquit the co-accused," said Judge Madalena Sidumo, during the reading of the sentence this Monday.

On October 21, the police of the Republic of Mozambique used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse demonstrators in Pemba who had responded to Venâncio Mondlane's call for peaceful marches.

It should be noted that in one of the lives, Mondlane had already asked the government to release the people who had been arrested as part of the peaceful demonstrations he had called.

Protesters holding placards with phrases such as "people in power, hand over power to the real winner" threw stones at the police.