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
- APRIL 26, 2006Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC. MINORS SIT ON DEATH ROW
among the inmates languishing in prisons throughout the DRC are at least ten children, some as young as 15 years old, condemned to death and waiting to be executed, according to a September 2005 letter from the United Nations to the Congolese government.
- MARCH 20, 2006Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC. MILITARY COURT CONVICTS TWO OFFICERS OVER KILLINGS
the military court of the Kalemie garrison in Katanga, south DRC, sentenced Capt. Yalala Musubao to death for voluntarily killing eight Mayi Mayi officers of the 8th Brigade.
- FEBRUARY 22, 2006Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
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the military court of the Uvira Garrison, DRC, sentenced a soldier to death and two others to terms of imprisonment after convicting them of murder and the distribution of arms.
- FEBRUARY 6, 2006Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
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the military court of the Bukavu Garrison, in the Eastern region of the DRC, sentenced to death a FARDC soldier for killing a 5-year-old boy and wounding four other civilians.
- JANUARY 9, 2006Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. SOLDIER SUMMARILY EXECUTED
a soldier from the Democratic Republic of Congo was summarily executed in a stadium before hundreds of people for murder on the orders of a senior officer, local authorities said.
- JANUARY 1, 2006Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, treason...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, treason, spying, political and military offences and genocide.
- NOVEMBER 18, 2005Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC. TWO SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER OF PRIEST
two soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo were sentenced to death in Kinshasa by a military tribunal for the murder of a Belgian Jesuit priest.
- MAY 17, 2005Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
RDC. EU WELCOMES THE ELIMINATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY FROM THE CONSTITUTION
the elimination of all references to the death penalty in the constitutional project approved by the DRC’s National Assembly on May 13 showed the country’s will to create the foundations for a democratic regime with the full respect of human rights, decla
- MAY 10, 2005Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, removed the reference to the death penalty in the draft constitution
the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, removed the reference to the death penalty in the draft constitution
- APRIL 18, 2005Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
GENEVA. EX DEATH ROW INMATE MAKES PLEA FOR A UN MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS
Jean de Dieu Muzaliwa Maroy, former death row inmate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, intervened at the UN Comission on Human Rights representing Hands Off Cain and the Transnational Radical Party.
- APRIL 4, 2005Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DRC. MAN CONDEMNED TO DEATH OVER KABILA’S MURDER DIES
Nico Bavurha, one of the men sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the assassination of Laurent Kabila, died on April 1 at Mama yemo hospital in Kinshasa where he had been transferred following a long period of illness in prison.
- MARCH 21, 2005Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
DEMOCRTIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. NGOS DEMAND ABOLISHING DEATH PENALTY
a delegation of the NGOs, calling themselves the "Congolese Coalition Against Death Penalty," met national assembly speaker Olivier Kamitatu to submit their grievance.