{"id":22143,"date":"2022-05-12T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=22143"},"modified":"2022-05-12T08:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:02:22","slug":"floribet-chebeya-dr-congo-policeman-sentenced-to-death-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/05\/12\/floribet-chebeya-dr-congo-policeman-sentenced-to-death-for-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Floribet Chebeya: DR Congo policeman sentenced to death for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Congolese military court has sentenced a high-ranking policeman to death for his role in the 2010 murder of human rights activist Floribet Chebeya, which caused national outrage.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Commissioner of police Christian Ngoy Kenga Kenga was found guilty of murder, desertion and misappropriation of weapons and ammunition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Chebeya’s body was found bound and gagged in his car in Kinshasa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There is a moratorium on capital punishments in DR Congo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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However, the death penalty has not been abolished and military courts continue to hand down such sentences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another policeman, Jacques Migabo, was also sentenced to 12 years during the trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He admitted to having strangled Mr Chebeya and his driver, Fid\u00e8le Bazana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police commissioner Paul Mwilambwe, who had been a key witness in the trial, was acquitted, UN-sponsored Radio Okapi says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Mwilambwe, who had been a fugitive since the murder and was only repatriated last year, named ex-President Joseph Kabila and the former head of police General John Numbi, as having ordered the killing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Neither Mr Kabila nor Gen Numbi have commented publicly, but a military court has charged the general with the murder of Mr Chebeya and his driver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He has fled the country and his current whereabouts are not known.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kenga, Migabo and Mr Mwilambwe were initially sentenced to death in 2011, with Kenga arrested in 2020 in the southern city of Lubumbashi before the case was re-opened last September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Chebeya led the Congolese charity Voice of the Voiceless, and as a prominent critic of the government received regular death threats during his career of more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He went to the police headquarters to meet the then head of the national police force, Gen Numbi, on the day he was killed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His driver Mr Bazana also went missing that day with authorities later pronouncing him dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The killing of Mr Chebeya prompted widespread international condemnation.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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