Direitos humanos e segurança pública em Moçambique : um estudo sobre o uso da força em manifestações públicas

Abstract

The Republic of Mozambique is a State of Democratic Right, governed by the Constitution (2004), insures, in its fundamental principles, that the State respects fundamental human rights and freedoms. However, although the Constitution establishes these guiding principles of the Rule of Law, several issues have challenged Human Rights, Public Security and the very affirmation of the State of Democratic Right. Among these issues are deficient justice, violation of human rights, and excessive and disproportionate use of force by police officers against citizens who speak out for their rights. This imposes the need to promote changes in the daily life of the police institution and in the attitudes of its personnel in order to respect and safeguard Human Rights. This means that Human Rights must always be observed in the process of command and leadership activity, in the capture of people, in the treatment of detainees, in the use of force, in short, in all collective and individual police activity. In order to observe the causes that contribute to the violation of Human Rights by the Police, analyze the level of knowledge of Human Rights by the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) and expose situations of violation of Human Rights by the Police of the Republic of Mozambique, we developed our study, initially, under the theoretical support of the concept of the Democratic State of Law, freedom of expression, assembly and demonstration, Human Rights, Public Security, Police and its function. The second part is essentially qualitative and supported by the quantitative approach, and the qualitative method will be adequate to understand the stage of respect for human rights by the PRM. Finally, we present our context and collaborating subjects of the research, and then, from their discourses, identify the factors that compete for the use of force in the Mozambican police action during public demonstrations.