Congo court sentences 3 Americans and 34 others to death on coup charges

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Congo court sentences 3 Americans and 34 others to ****** on coup charges

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A military court in Congo handed down ****** sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of taking part in a coup attempt.

The defendants, who also included a Briton, Belgian, ********* and several Congolese, can appeal the verdict on charges that included terrorism, ******* and ********* association. Fourteen people were acquitted in the trial, which opened in June.

Six people were ******* during the

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led by the little-known opposition figure ********** Malanga in May that targeted the presidential palace and a close ally of President

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. Malanga was fatally shot while resisting arrest soon after live-streaming the ******* on his social media, the Congolese army said.

Malanga’s 21-year-old son Marcel Malanga, who is a U.S. citizen, and two other Americans were convicted in the the *******. His mother, Brittney Sawyer, has said her son is innocent and was simply following his father, who considered himself president of a shadow government in exile.

The other Americans were

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, who flew to ******* from Utah with the younger Malanga for what his family believed was a vacation, and Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, 36, who is reported to have known ********** Malanga through a gold mining company.

The company was set up in Mozambique in 2022, according to an official journal published by Mozambique’s government, and a report by the ******* Intelligence newsletter.

Thompson’s family maintains he had no knowledge of the elder Malanga’s intentions, no plans for political activism and didn’t even plan to enter Congo. He and the Malangas were meant to travel only to South ******* and Eswatini, Thompson’s stepmother said.

The reading out of the verdict and sentencing before the open-air military court were broadcast live on television.

Last month, the military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Innocent Radjabu. called on the judges to sentence to ****** all of the defendants, except for one who suffers from “psychological problems.”

Earlier this year, Congo

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, lifting a more than two-decade-old moratorium, as authorities struggle to curb ********* and militant attacks in the country.

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