DR Congo’s ex-President Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia

A subject tribunal successful the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced erstwhile President Joseph Kabila to decease successful absentia.

Lieutenant-General Joseph Mutombo Katalayi, who presided implicit the subject tribunal, said connected Tuesday that Kabila was convicted of assorted crimes including treason, crimes against humanity, murder, intersexual assault, torture and insurrection.

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Kabila, who served arsenic president from 2001 to 2019, had near the DRC successful 2023 but recently visited the eastbound of the state successful an country controlled by the M23 rebel group.

There was nary contiguous accusation astir Kabila’s whereabouts aft the subject court’s decision.

The ex-president went connected proceedings successful absentia successful July for his alleged enactment for the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, who seized ample swathes of territory successful the eastbound DRC this year.

Kabila had antecedently denounced the lawsuit against him, calling the courts “an instrumentality of oppression”.

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