Maputo - A prominent lawyer and academic who was shot dead on Tuesday in Mozambique's capital Maputo, had recently received threats on Facebook, the country's prosecution said on Wednesday.
Gilles Cistac, a constitutional law professor at Eduardo Mondlane University who favoured more autonomy for Mozambique's provinces, was gunned down in broad daylight on a main street in Maputo.
Last week Cistac had filed a complaint after insulting remarks against him by a Facebook user going under the pseudonym "Calado Calachnicov", Portuguese for "silent Kalashnikov", prosecution spokesperson Marcelino Vilankulo told AFP.