Country: Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
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Two members of F.D.L.R. convicted of crimes against humanity in South Kivu (D.R. Congo)
Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) is pleased to report that on 16 august 2011, the Military Garrison Court of Bukavu in the Province of South Kivu has in a mobile court* hearing, convicted two members of the F.D.L.R.*. Maniragula Jean Bosco alias Kazungu, who is considered to be a commander of one faction, has been convicted…
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Verdict Chebeya case : the Congolese justice at a crossroad
Brussels, 24 June 2011 – For Avocats Sans Frontières, that represents the brothers and sisters of the human rights activist Floribert Chebeya, the verdict reached by the Congolese Military Court on 23 June 2011 brings only few answers to the circumstances of the murder of Chebeya on 1 June 2010 and the disappearance of his…
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Lieutenant-Colonel Mutware (DRC) sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
Avocats Sans Frontieres (ASF) is pleased to report a decision that was recently issued in the province of South Kivu on February 21, 2011, sentencing Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Kibibi Mutware, interim commandant in the 43rd operational sector of the Amani Leo operation of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (AFDRC), along with…
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DRC: Focus on the trial of Kakado
On the 9th August 2010, a remarkable judgment for the struggle against the most serious violations of human rights was handed down in Ituri by the military tribunal of Bunia, (East DRC). Bernard Yonga Tshopena Kakado, founder of the Ituri Patriotic Resistance Front (IPRF), was condemned to life imprisonment. From 2000 to 2007, when he…
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