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His whereabouts remain\u00a0unknown.\u00a0\n\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022figure__credit\u0022\u003E\u00a9 2016 Private\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Saturday, pro-democracy youth movements Struggle for Change (LUCHA) and Filimbi, together with the youth wings of the Rassemblement opposition coalition and the Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) opposition party, launched a campaign called \u201cBye Bye Kabila\u201d and started a countdown to the last day of Kabila\u2019s second term.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EPolice sought to intimidate and arrest the organizers in advance of the planned event, the latest heavy-handed effort by police to tamp down public protests. Kinshasa Governor Andr\u00e9 Kimbuta called on the organizers to cancel their activities because the organizations are not legally registered, even though there is no legal requirement to be registered as an organization in order to hold a peaceful political meeting in Congo. Security forces arrested Filimbi activist Jeef Mabika on Thursday morning at his house. His whereabouts remain unknown.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EOn Saturday, Rassamblement youth member Bony Mputu Dikasa decided against participating in the awareness-raising campaign after he saw suspicious-looking men watching the activists. He left the area and was then followed by three armed men in civilian clothes. They stopped him, threatened him with a pistol, questioned him about his role in the campaign, and detained him for several hours. A police captain later told him that authorities are closely watching his group\u2019s movements. A family member was forced to pay for his release. Another Filimbi activist was reportedly arrested on the same day but the details of his arrest and his current whereabouts remain unknown.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EA Congolese cameraman who tried to take footage of the campaign was arrested and detained for two hours by men in civilian clothes.\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026#13;\n\u0026#13;\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite the arrests, about 20 youth activists managed to distribute leaflets in Kinshasa\u2019s Kasavubu neighborhood on Saturday, announcing the start of the \u201cBye Bye Kabila\u201d campaign.\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}]