DR Congo: Killings, Rapes by Rwanda-Backed M23 Rebels
Rebels’ Incursions Exacerbate Humanitarian Crisis in East

The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) continues to target those perceived as a threat to the government. Several high-profile critics have been arrested or threatened and authorities regularly fail to conduct credible investigations into cases of enforced disappearances and suspicious deaths of government opponents. Arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, and torture in official and unofficial detention facilities is commonplace, and fair trial standards are routinely flouted in many sensitive political cases, in which security-related charges are often used to prosecute prominent government critics. Arbitrary detention and mistreatment of street children, sex workers and petty vendors occurs widely.
Rebels’ Incursions Exacerbate Humanitarian Crisis in East
Abuses by M23, Militias Aided by Congolese Army Foment Ethnic Violence in North Kivu
Detention, Ill-Treatment of Poor, Gay, and Transgender People
For First Time, Senior Rwandan Commander Targeted for Backing M23
To Address M23 Abuses, Sanctions on More Senior Officials Also Needed
Six Months Later, Still No Effective Investigation into John Williams Ntwali’s Death
Evidence of Apparent War Crimes in Kishishe Should Be Preserved
Rebels’ Incursions Exacerbate Humanitarian Crisis in East
Fulgence Kayishema Caught After Two Decades; Should Face Swift, Fair Trial
86 Organizations Reiterate Call for an Independent Investigation