Congolese activists jailed for incitement, UN 'very worried'
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KINSHASA- Three Congolese activists, arrested hours before a general strike in February to demand that President Joseph Kabila leave power when his mandate expires this year, were sentenced on Friday to one year in prison, the United Nations said.
Bienvenu Matumo and Heritier Kapitene, members of the pro-democracy group Struggle for Change (Lucha), and Victor Tesongo, a member of an opposition party, were convicted of inciting disobedience and spreading false information, said Jose Maria Aranaz, director of the UN human rights office in Democratic Republic of Congo.
"We are very worried about this instrumentalisation of the judiciary and the continued criminalisation of civil society," Aranaz told Reuters.
