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Another three LUCHA activists were arrested in Goma this morning.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Sunday, LUCHA activist Victor Tesongo was arrested at his home in Kinshasa. Intelligence agents detained him for several hours and\u00a0threatened him\u00a0before freeing him without charge. Tesongo was previously jailed on trumped up charges from February 16 to August 31.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother activist, Jean Claude Ekosa from the citizens\u2019 movement Quatri\u00e8me Voix, was abducted on Sunday in Kinshasa following a meeting with colleagues. After he got into a shared taxi, a passenger took out a gun, pointed it at Ekosa, and told him not to scream. \u201cIf you cry out,\u201d he said, \u201cwe\u2019re going to kill you like a dog and your family is never going to find you again.\u201d Ekosa was blindfolded and taken to an unknown destination. He was put in a cell with five other people, and interrogated that evening and the next day about his connections to the opposition and accused of being \u201camong those disrupting public order.\u201d Eventually Ekosa overheard the kidnappers say he \u201cwasn\u2019t the target they were looking for.\u201d Early this morning, they put Ekosa back in the car and dumped him on the side of the road near Kinkole, on the outskirts of Kinshasa, still blindfolded and with his hands tied together. \u00a0\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u00a0\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tThe demonstrations scheduled for the next two days were called for by a coalition of 173 citizens\u2019 movements and human rights groups from across Congo, who \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/content\/295565\u0022\u003Epublished a roadmap\u003C\/a\u003E last week on how to overcome the country\u2019s political crisis. They also called on President Joseph Kabila to leave office at the end of his constitutionally mandated two-term limit on December 19.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EThe planned demonstrations coincide with a summit of regional leaders and special envoys for the Great Lakes region in Luanda, Angola, to discuss Congo\u2019s political crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]