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Prisoner Release – 1993

According to the U.S. State Department Human Rights Report (1994), “in 1993 there were no reports of detention of prisoners for national security reasons” in Mozambique. However, in 1993 there were charges that RENAMO had tortured apparent defector Tiago Salgado before his death (See section 1.b.), as well as a Nampula police sergeant detained in December after an alleged attempt on the life of Afonso Dhlakama. While similar highly publicized allegations were not known to have been directed at the government in 1993, the suspicion that it too continued to employ torture remained widespread.¹“Mozambique Human Rights Practices, 1993,” U.S. Department of State, January 31, 1994, accessed September 13, 2010, http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_afr…