Congo - Kinshasa
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Abolitionist de facto
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 0
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 0
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery,...
- News items in the archive
- 166
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Congo - Kinshasa is classified as Abolitionist de facto in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 0 executions in the country, against 0 the year before. The archive holds 166 news items on Congo - Kinshasa, from 1999 to today.
Latest news
- MAY 21, 2002Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Rwandan-backed rebels in the Democratic Republic of...
Rwandan-backed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are still arresting and executing suspected dissidents a week after a mutiny in the rebel-held eastern city of Kisangani, a U
- APRIL 25, 2002Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Democratic Republic of Congo abstained from the resolution...
Democratic Republic of Congo abstained from the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- MARCH 12, 2002Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The chief of staff of slain Congolese President Laurent...
The chief of staff of slain Congolese President Laurent Kabila was charged with helping mastermind his assassination, and 80 others were charged with plotting the murder, family and officials said
- JANUARY 1, 2002Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery,...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, treason, political and military offenses and genocide
- NOVEMBER 30, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
At the UN Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and...
At the UN Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) session the representative of Belgium, on behalf of the European Union, introduced a draft resolution on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- NOVEMBER 5, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of...
The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has had "a major impact on the human rights situation in the country", with torture reported in government-as well as rebel-held areas, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robi
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
African Human Rights League (AHRL) chairman Dave Mbanza...
African Human Rights League (AHRL) chairman Dave Mbanza appealed to the Democratic Republic of Congo's government to grant clemency to people sentenced in connection with the assassination of President Laurent Kabila and the coup attempt against his son a
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
International human rights NGO Amnesty International...
International human rights NGO Amnesty International and DRC human rights NGO ASADHO (African Association for the Defence of Human Rights) protested the death sentences of eight people issued on September 14 by the Cour d'ordre militaire (COM - Military O
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A military court in Congo sentenced eight people to...
A military court in Congo sentenced eight people to death for a failed plot to assassinate the central African nation's president, Joseph Kabila
- MAY 28, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning...
The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning started its examination of an initial report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by asking the delegation, among other things, about the situation of children sentenced to capital punishment
- MAY 16, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The European Union Commission and ambassadors of Sweden...
The European Union Commission and ambassadors of Sweden and Belgium have appealed to the governor of Illinois to grant clemency to a Polish citizen awaiting the death sentence for the murder of a Chicago woman
- MAY 14, 2001Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
The EU General Affairs Council welcomed the Democratic...
The EU General Affairs Council welcomed the Democratic Republic of Congo's vote in favour of the UN Commission on Human Rights resolution on the question of the death penalty, and urged the government of the DRC to work on internal legislation in the spir
- 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
- FEBRUARY 2, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
According to Amnesty International, nineteen other...
According to Amnesty International, nineteen other prisoners were executed in and around Kinshasa between January 28 and February 2, 2000
- JANUARY 15, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Despite a declaration in December 1999 by the Minister...
Despite a declaration in December 1999 by the Minister for Human Rights that the government was observing a moratorium on executions, a 14-year-old child soldier named Kasongo was executed within 30 minutes of his trial by the Cour d'ordre militaire (COM)
- JANUARY 13, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss said President Laurent-Desire...
Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss said President Laurent-Desire Kabila commuted the death sentence imposed on Sammi Yassine and Khalil Ghodban, two Lebanese convicted of illegal currency trafficking and spying for rebel forces in the Democratic Republic
- JANUARY 10, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
A military court set up in Kinshasa by Kabila sentenced...
A military court set up in Kinshasa by Kabila sentenced Sammy Hachim and Khalil Algadba, two Lebanese men, to death for currency trafficking and spying for rebels holding the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
- JANUARY 1, 2000Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery,...
Capital crimes are: aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, treason, political and military offenses and genocide
- DECEMBER 15, 1999Congo - KinshasaDEATH PENALTY
On December 15, the Congolese government freed 156 prisoners
On December 15, the Congolese government freed 156 prisoners