8 Sentenced to Death for Assassination Plot
From Times Wire Reports
A military court in Congo sentenced eight people to death for a failed plot to assassinate the central African nation’s president, Joseph Kabila.
Fifteen others received 10-year prison terms in Thursday’s trial in the town of Likasi. Two were sentenced to 15- and five-year terms, and 34 others were acquitted.
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