DRC: around ten civil society activists arrested during a rally in Kinshasa
The reasons for their arrest have not yet been communicated by the authorities.
Fred Bauma, from the Lucha movement, is one of two civil society activists arrested on Saturday evening February 3 in Kinshasa. AFP PHOTO/FEDERICO SCOPPA
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With our correspondent in Kinshasa,
Pascal Mulegwa
Between eight and twelve citizen movement activists were arrested Saturday evening in Kinshasa while they gathered to commemorate and denounce the 600 days of occupation of the town of Bunagana, in eastern DRC, by M23 rebels .
Among these activists are Bienvenu Matumo and Fred Bauma, of Lucha. All spent their second night in the cells of the National Intelligence Agency (ANR). A repression that worries Master Jean-Claude Katende, president of the Congolese human rights association (ASADHO).
President Tshisekedi continues to call on the Congolese to mobilize against Rwanda. That colleagues came together to denounce the occupation of Bunagana and that the security services including the ANR came to arrest them and take them to an unknown destination disappointed me greatly. I note that President Tshisekedi's mandate begins with a dark task for us, human rights activists. We arrest citizens who have done nothing other than respond to the call of the President of the Republic. In the ANR premises, they risk being victims of torture. the fact that they are deprived of meeting their family members but also of the assistance of a lawyer puts them in danger because we know well how these services operate.
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