Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced to death 37 people, including three United States citizens, on charges of taking part in a failed coup in May. ‘The court pronounces the harshest sentence: the death penalty for criminal association, the death penalty for attack, the death penalty for terrorism,’ the court’s president, Freddy Ehume, said in a verdict read on live television on Friday. The defendants – who also included a Briton, Belgian and Canadian – have five days to appeal the verdict. Fourteen people were acquitted in the trial, which opened in June. … military officials said armed men had briefly occupied an office of the presidency in the capital, Kinshasa, on May 19. Their leader, US-based Congolese politician Christian Malanga, was killed by security forces, and two security guards were also killed in the failed takeover.” (09/13/24)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/13/dr-congo-military-court-sentences-37-to-death-in-coup-trial