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
JANUARY 13, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDR CONGO: REBEL LEADER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The military court in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced a rebel leader to death.
JANUARY 10, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYBeni: two militia chiefs sentenced to death
10 January 2018: the military Court of North Kivu, sitting in the fair room in Beni, condemned Ugandan rebels of the ADF and their collaborators to sentences which vary between two years of penal servitude to the death penalty.
JANUARY 8, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYBeni: one condemned to death
8 January 2018: the operational military Court of North Kivu had sentenced to death Kamal Selemani
- JANUARY 1, 2018Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Under Article 1 of the Constitution, the human person is sacred and inviolable
Under Article 1 of the Constitution, the human person is sacred and inviolable
NOVEMBER 17, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYNorth Kivu: one death sentence for the attack at the Goma airport in 2015
17 November 2017: the operational military Court of Goma condemned to the death penalty and the payment of $650,000 in favor of the Congolese state, Mr Malonga Kambala
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYBenin: one senteced to death
11 September 2017: the operational military Court of North Kivu made a decision in No. RP: 192/2017 and RP: 205/2017.
MAY 18, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYDRC: NORWEGIAN-BRITISH PRISONER RELEASED FROM DEATH ROW AMID GROWING HEALTH CONCERNS
Joshua French and his friend Tjostolv Moland were twice sentenced to death in 2009 and 2010 following convictions for numerous offences, including murder and espionage by a DRC military court in Kinshasa, charges which both prisoners denied.
- MAY 15, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Beni: one sentenced to death
10 May 2017: the military operational Court of North Kivu condemned four persons to sentences ranging from two years in prison to the death penalty.
MAY 8, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTYOne sentenced to death, died in prison
8 May 2017: Colonel Charles Alamba Mungako, sentenced to death in 2004 for his alleged participation in an assassination, died in a prison in Kinshasa.
- MARCH 10, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Nine sentenced to death
10 March 2017: a Congolese court sentenced to death nine rebels convicted of having participated in the violence that has caused more than 1000 deaths in the east of the country since October 2014.
- JANUARY 1, 2017Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Under Article 1 of the Constitution, the human person is sacred and inviolable
Under Article 1 of the Constitution, the human person is sacred and inviolable
- JULY 22, 2016Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila commuted the sentences of all death row inmates
Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila commuted the sentences of all death row inmates