Kinshasa, Jan 8, 2025 (AFP) - Amnesty urges DRC to halt scores of death sentences

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2025-01-08

Amnesty international on Wednesday appealed to DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi to halt the executions of scores of people sentenced to death for belonging to criminal gangs. Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have since December tried several hundred suspected offenders, known as kulunas, as part of a vast anti-gang operation. Many face the death sentence for crimes of urban banditry and are being held in high security prisons. V......

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