DRC: 51 people sentenced to death over 2017 murder of two UN experts
by Agence France-Presse from World news | The Guardian on (#5VJJZ)
Dozens of people have been on trial for more than four years over the killing of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has sentenced 51 people to death, several in absentia, in a mass trial over the 2017 murder of two UN experts in a troubled central region.
Capital punishment is frequently pronounced in murder cases in the DRC but is routinely commuted to life imprisonment since the country declared a moratorium on executions in 2003.
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