Congo - Brazzaville
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- republic
- CONSTITUTION
- approved by referendum on January 20, 2002
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on the French system and customary norms
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
50% Catholics; 48% animists; 2% Muslims
From the country
- JUNE 16, 2011Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
DEATH SENTENCE OVER UN TROOPS' KILLING IN DR CONGO
a military court in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Nord-Kivu province...
- JANUARY 1, 2011Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- NOVEMBER 24, 2010Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION – JUSTICE MINISTER FOR ABOLITION
the Hands Off Cain delegation, comprising parliamentarian Elisabetta Zamparutti
- NOVEMBER 23, 2010Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: HANDS OFF CAIN MISSION – MEETINGS WITH THE CHAMBER AND SENATE FOR ABOLTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
after meeting the Secretary General of the Congo Foreign Affairs ministry Daniel Owassa yesterday, the Hands Off Cain and Non Violent Radical Party delegation (comprising parliamentarians Elisabetta Zamparutti and Marco Perduca and accompanied by the Ital
- JANUARY 1, 2010Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2009Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2008Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- DECEMBER 18, 2007Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Congo voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium..
Congo voted in favour of the Resolution on a Moratorium...
- AUGUST 28, 2007Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: SHOCK AT DEATH SENTENCES FOR MURDER OF UN RADIO JOURNALIST
Reporters Without Borders is stunned by the four death sentences imposed by a military court in the eastern city of Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for the murder of UN radio journalist Serge Maheshe at the end of a trial riddled with absurdi
- AUGUST 15, 2007Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
CONGO: PRESIDENT COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES OF 17 PRISONERS
Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso granted general pardons on the occasion of Congo's National Day
- JANUARY 1, 2007Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
- JANUARY 1, 2006Congo - BrazzavilleDEATH PENALTY
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.
Murder, treason, spying and offences against the State are capital crimes.