Mozambican Lawyer Killed Winner Nelson Mandela Award

"The winner of this year with the Nelson Mandela award is lawyer Elvino Dias, who was killed in October of last year while acting as a representative of Venâncio Mondlane, candidate for the presidential elections in Mozambique," said Augustinho Pereira de Miranda in an interview to Lusa. With this year's prize, the association intended "to honor the example of a lawyer who lost his life when he performed his duties", but also "to show solidarity…

With Elvino Dias' choice, the ProPública sends “a message of solidarity” to Mozambican lawyers and calls attention to a country with a “disrespectable” record of “disrespectable human rights”.