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Human Rights Developments
Defending Human Rights
The Role of the International CommunityAlthough the Congo’s dynamic nongovernmental sector preserved its autonomy, the government routinely lashed back at critical rights groups. In April the government dissolved the country’s leading monitoring group, the African Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASAHDO) shortly after it published a report about civilian killings by government troops in eastern Congo. In May, ASAHDO’s annual report on the human rights record of the government triggered the confiscation of the document, a raid on and the sealing of its national office, and the arrest of its acting executive director. Concurrently with this broad attack, the government de-registered all but twenty-two of the estimated 150 human rights groups in the country. Two leaders of the League of Voters, one of the authorized groups, were detained for two months following a work visit in mid-May to the Belgian embassy. President Kabila publicly accused them of “espionage” shortly after their arrest. Although the government authorized an official Human Rights Watch mission in April-May, agents detained the organization’s researcher for a day as he prepared to leave the country, and sought to identify his contacts and activities during the mission. |
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