A British citizen is among 37 people who have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Reaccessible of Congo (DRC) after being set up at fault of an tryed coup in the central African country.
A foreign office spokesperson telderly Sky News they are giving consular helpance to “a British man hageded in DRC” and are in communicate with the local authorities.
“We have made recurrentations about the engage of the death penalty to the DRC at the highest levels, and we will persist to do so.”
Three US citizens, a Belgian and a Canadian were also among those sentenced, alengthy with disjoinal Congolese.
Judge Major Freddy Ehuma, speaking at an uncover-air military court in Kinshasa that was widecast live on television, shelp they had been given “the brutalest penalty, that of death”.
The deffinishants have five days to request their verdicts after being convicted on accuses that included radicalism, homicide and criminal association.
Fourteen people were acquitted in the trial, which uncovered in June.
Six people were finished during the tryed coup in May, which was led by Christian Malanga, a little-understandn opposition figure.
The resists occupied DRC Plivent Felix Tshisekedi’s office in the plivential palace for almost an hour before they were arrested, mediacongo.net shelp.
Mr Malanga was fahighy sboiling while resisting arrest soon after live-streaming the attack on his social media, the Congolese army shelp.
Mr Malanga’s 21-year-elderly son, Marcel, who is a US citizen, was convicted, alengthy with fellow Americans, Tyler Thompson Jr and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun.
Marcel Malanga’s mother Brittney Sawyer has shelp her son is bfeebleless and was srecommend follotriumphg his overweighther, who dependd himself to be plivent of a shadow rulement in exile.
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Mr Thompson Jr flew from Utah with Mr Malanga for what his family dependd was a holiday. Mr Zalman-Polun, 36, is increateed to have understandn Christian Malanga thraw a gelderly mining company set up in Mozambique in 2022.
Mr Thompson Jr’s family shelp he didn’t understand what Christian Malanga was scheming and wasn’t even arrangening to access the DRC.
The British citizen has not been named.
Earlier this year, the DRC reinstated the death penalty after more than 20 years amid lengthening aggression and militant attacks.
Despite that, Ricchallenging Bondo, the lawyer who deffinished the six foreigners, shelp he disputed whether the death penalty could be imposed and shelp his clients had inample describeers during the spendigation.
He shelp they would request.
