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Ahead of his trial before Mozambique's Supreme Court over alleged crimes linked to the 2024 post-election protests, opposition leader and former presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane spoke exclusively to DW.

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00:00There is no nothing that can prove that I am someone that promotes violence in Mozambique.
00:08Mozambique's opposition politician Venansio Modlani is facing five charges linked to protests
00:14that erupted after the country's disputed 2024 presidential election. Modlani was notified on
00:21August 25th that he will stand trial before Mozambique's Supreme Court. He is not under
00:27arrest and no trial death has been announced. It's a good opportunity to show to the world
00:37how the range and the dimension of the manipulation that the regime is trying to make to block
00:47the opposition and to block the activists in Mozambique, even the voice that criticizes the
00:53regime. Prosecutors accuse him of public advocates of crime, incitement to collective disobedience,
01:00public instigation to a crime, instigation to terrorism, and incitement to terrorism. The
01:06case comes nearly two years after the election, which official results declared Frelimo candidate
01:13Danil Chapo the winner. Frelimo has ruled Mozambique for more than 50 years. Modlani rejected the result,
01:21saying he had won. Civil society organizations in the country have also criticized the electoral
01:28process. Months of protest followed, with at least 300 people reportedly killed, according to human
01:35rights organizations. Now the trial could affect Modlani's political future. The charges could
01:42prevent him from running in the 2029 presidential election, even if he is not imprisoned.
01:51The law enforcement authorities had to prevent the force of attacking theMercivist. The
01:52state of the social media community has given the city's political society. The state of the
01:52internal��려 more than 500 people in the country, some people desperately need to protect the
01:52injury. The state of the state of the state has changed the control of the law that
01:53is justified in the country. So once the shooters were taken to the same time, the
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