{"id":78693,"date":"2025-08-24T07:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78693"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:04:21","slug":"congo-prosecutor-seeks-death-penalty-for-former-president-joseph-kabila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/24\/congo-prosecutor-seeks-death-penalty-for-former-president-joseph-kabila\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo prosecutor seeks death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1L4Usw.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=416&amp;y=101&amp;s=59&amp;d=59\" alt=\"Former Democratic Republic of the Congo President Joseph Kabila arrives to meet with religious leaders at his Kinyogote residence in M23 controlled Goma, Eastern Congo, May 29\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Friday, the country\u2019s public prosecutor called for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia for treason, war crimes, and supporting the M23 rebel group.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/congo-prosecutor-seeks-death-penalty-for-former-president-joseph-kabila\/ar-AA1L4Bfz?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=e6bccf80cec44773a33283038fe83065&amp;ei=18\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>On Friday, the country\u2019s public prosecutor called for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Kabila.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78694,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78693\/revisions\/78694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}