DR Congo: Military Court Sentences MP To Death
A member of parliament, owner of a strategic mining company, was sentenced to death on Friday in Kinshasa by the military justice system on charges including "participation in the M23 insurrectionary movement" and "treason", in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The death penalty is often pronounced in the DRC, but has not been applied for 20 years and is systematically commuted to life imprisonment. In August, the prosecution had requested […]