Mozambican Lawyer Murdered in Mozambique Wins Nelson Mandela Prize

Mozambican lawyer Elvino Dias, who was killed in Mozambique in 2024, is recognized as winner of the Nelson Mandela Prize of the ProPública of this year's edition.

"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”.