US EditionDR Congo’s ex-President Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia
- On Tuesday, a high military tribunal in Kinshasa found Joseph Kabila, the ex-president, guilty of treason along with multiple other offenses and handed down a death sentence.
- The court trial followed the Senate's May vote to repeal Kabila's immunity amid government allegations of his collaboration with the M23 rebel group.
- Since July, Kabila has faced a trial conducted without his presence, with charges that include treason, conspiracy, supporting terrorism, and orchestrating an insurrection alongside the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group.
- The court mandated that Kabila compensate Congo with $29 billion, and provide $2 billion each to the North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, while also demanding his immediate arrest.
- Kabila denied all allegations as political persecution, and his current whereabouts remain unknown after returning briefly from self-imposed exile to rebel-held Goma in April.
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On Tuesday, 30 September, the Kinshasa High Military Court sentenced the former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila, to the death penalty and found him guilty of treason and participation in an insurrectional movement, calling him "head of the AFC/M23 armed coalition". A decision unprecedented in Congolese political history.
Former DR Congo President Kabila sentenced to death in absentia
Former DR Congo President Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia by a military court for war crimes, treason, and crimes against humanity. His conviction could complicate Washington’s efforts to make peace between Kinshasa, M23 rebels in the east, and the rebels’ alleged backers in Rwanda, as the Trump administration seeks to invest in the resource-rich region’s mines and infrastructure projects.Kabila — who was also convicted for his …
Former President Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia by a military court in Kinshasa – and an astronomical fine.
Congo’s ex-president Kabila sentenced to death in absentia by military court - Hawaii Tribune-Herald
KINSHASA — Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia on Tuesday by a military court that convicted him of war crimes, treason, and crimes against humanity. The case stems from his alleged role in backing the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in Congo’s volatile east. Kabila, who led Congo from 2001 to 2019, has denied wrongdoing and said the judiciary has been politicized.
DR Congo military court sentences former President Kabila to death in absentia for treason
A high military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) convicted former President Joseph Kabila of treason and war crimes Tuesday on accusations of collaborating with anti-government rebels and sentenced him to death.
Kabila was not convicted for crimes committed during his term, but for collaborating with rebels afterward. The former president's current whereabouts are unclear.
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