Police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 30A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced 51 people to death in connection with the murder of two UN staffers nearly five years ago, Agence France-Presse reported. the murder of two UN experts — Swedish citizen Zaida Catalan and US citizen Michael Sharp. In March 2017, they were abducted during a mission in Kasai province in the DRC, and at the end of the same month, both were found dead. It is noted that out of 54 defendants, one person was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and two more were acquitted. It is emphasized that those sentenced to death will serve life sentences, since the DRC has had a moratorium on the death penalty since 2003. attack in northeast DR Congo
