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DRC: 51 people sentenced to death over 2017 murder of two UN experts

Dozens of people have been on trial for more than four years over the killing of Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalán

A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has sentenced 51 people to death, several in absentia, in a mass trial over the 2017 murder of two UN experts in a troubled central region.

Capital punishment is frequently pronounced in murder cases in the DRC but is routinely commuted to life imprisonment since the country declared a moratorium on executions in 2003.

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