Citation: Zitha v. Mozambique, Decision, Comm. The communication is submitted by Prof. Pacelli L. Zitha herein after called second victim. Prior to his arrest and detention on 26 October , hewas a medical student at the University of Lourenco Marques in Mozambique, where he wasenrolled in the Faculty of Medicine from and The second victim, Prof.
Zitha, the son of the first victim, is a citizen of France,born on 19 October in Mozambique. Armando Guebuza,to join a meeting of the members of the grupos dinamisadores.
He was taken to the meetingin a military vehicle, accompanied by armed FRELIMO[FN3] When he entered the meetingroom, under the escort of heavily armed militia, he was humiliated and accused of being abetrayer.
He was not informed about the reasons for his arrest. His family, including his son, the second victim, were not informed nor notified of these events. After five days of thorough search by second victim and his family, they discovered that the first victim was detained at the prison of Boane. A few weeks later, the first victim suddenly disappeared from the prison in Boane.
After a few days the second victim found out that his father, the first victim, had been transferred to the former Cadeia Judiciaria in Maputo. Around the beginning of , the second victim met the first victim for the last time at Cadeia Judiciaria in Maputo. After that visit, the first victim suddenly disappeared from the prison in Maputo. The Complainant alleges that an article from the Tanzania Daily News of 23 April indicated that the first victim was paraded in public on 21 April at the Nachinqwea Prison in southern Tanzania.
