Congo - Kinshasa
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- Republic
- CONSTITUTION
- February 18, 2006
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on the Belgian and French systems
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, composed of National Assembly and Senate
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Constitutional Court, Court of Appeal or Court of Cassation; Council of State; Martial Judicial System, military and civil courts
RELIGIONS
50% Catholics, 20% Protestants, 10% Kimbanguist, 10% Muslims, 10% animist minorities and other indigenous beliefs
From the country
- MAY 2, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch (HRW) asks the government to spare...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) asks the government to spare the lives of four children sentenced to death by the country's Court of Military Order, who were between 14 and 16 years of age at the time they were sentenced to death
- MAY 2, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Human Rights Watch declared that Congo had not to execute...
Human Rights Watch declared that Congo had not to execute four ne devait pas exécuter child-soldiers
- APRIL 25, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Democratic republic of Congo voted in favour of the...
Democratic republic of Congo voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- MARCH 30, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
President Joseph Kabila, addressing the annual session...
President Joseph Kabila, addressing the annual session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, said that pending the completion of the judicial reform and, especially, that of military justice, the military tribunal had been instructed to handle excl
- MARCH 21, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Roberto Garreton the U
Roberto Garreton the U
- MARCH 4, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Moise Nyarugabo, a rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy...
Moise Nyarugabo, a rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD) spokesman, said that Congolese authorities were rounding up people in Kinshasa whom they suspected of being involved in the assassination of President Laurent Kabila in January
- JANUARY 30, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The UN special rapporteur on human rights in DRC, Roberto...
The UN special rapporteur on human rights in DRC, Roberto Garreton, condemned the January 19 clashes between the Hema and Lendu in Bunia and said that Lendu and Ngiti militiamen attacked Ugandan military positions near Bunia airport
- JANUARY 1, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery,...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, treason, political and military offenses and genocide
- DECEMBER 17, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A senior army officer denied allegations by a human...
A senior army officer denied allegations by a human rights group that a former security adviser of President Laurent Kabila and several other soldiers had been executed
- NOVEMBER 28, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The acting UN emergency relief co-ordinator in DRC,...
The acting UN emergency relief co-ordinator in DRC, Carolyn McAskie, said random violence against civilian and flagrant human rights violations were prevalent throughout the country
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Jean-Pierre Bemba, a rebel leader in the Democratic...
Jean-Pierre Bemba, a rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of the Congo accused government troops of executing 51 civilians in the north eastern town of Dongo
- JULY 3, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Ugandan troops were reported to have been involved...
Ugandan troops were reported to have been involved in killings and other abuses against members of the Lendu ethnic group in Kibali-Ituri province in April and more than 500 unarmed civilians were killed by Ugandan and Rwandese troops fighting in Kisangan