Attacks on Justice 2000 – DR Congo

Africa
Issue: Independence of Judges and Lawyers
Document Type: Publication
Date: 2001

A new Constitution, elaborated and approved by the President of the Republic, is still pending for approval in a popular referendum. Only some parts of the new Constitution were made public.

The government continues to use the military courts to harass and persecute opposition politicians, while a poorly funded and widely corrupt system of regular courts continues to have a diminished jurisdiction.

Attacks on Justice 2000 – Congo (full text, PDF)

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