Thirty-seven individuals, including three Americans, a Briton, a Belgian, and a Canadian, have been sentenced to d3ath in connection with a failed coup attempt against the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The attack targeted both the presidential palace and the home of an ally of President Félix Tshisekedi in May. Christian Malanga, an American of Congolese descent and the alleged ringleader, was k!lled during the attack.
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Among those sentenced are Malanga’s son, Marcel, and his friend Tyler Thompson, both Americans. Jean-Jacques Wondo, a Congolese-Belgian researcher, also received the d3ath penalty despite concerns over the evidence against him.
The court found 14 out of 51 defendants not guilty.
While death sentences have not been enacted in DR Congo for two decades, the government lifted the moratorium earlier this year, though no executions have occurred yet.
