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DRC: 2nd anniversary of assassination of human rights defender Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi,posted on: 2007/07/31

Pascal Kabungulu Kibembi was assassinated at the age of 55, in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the early hours of July 31 2005, armed men broke into his home and shot him dead in front of his family. One of the attackers apparently said: "We were looking for you, and today is the day of your death.” Pascal was also the vice president of the regional human rights umbrella group in the Great Lakes, the Ligue des Droits de l'Homme dans la Région des Grands Lacs.

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Human Rights Defender Arrested in Democratic Republic of Congo, February 2004posted on: 2004/06/17

Human Rights Defender Télesphore Namukama, was reportedly arrested on the 12th of February, by agents of the Direction de Securitte et Renseignements (D.S.R.). He is currently being held in detention in a DSR cell in Bukavu, without formal charges or access to a lawyer. The detention is reportedly in connection with his statement on a radio program that people with bad motivations had used the timing of the visit of the President to get media attention for the assassinations they were carrying out, in order to jeopardize efforts by the government to restore security.