{"id":633,"date":"2023-09-14T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/?p=633"},"modified":"2023-09-14T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T09:55:13","slug":"jean-marc-kabund-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-insulting-drcs-president-felix-tshisekedi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/index.php\/2023\/09\/14\/jean-marc-kabund-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-for-insulting-drcs-president-felix-tshisekedi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Marc Kabund sentenced to 7 years in prison for insulting DRC&#8217;s president Felix Tshisekedi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>This sentence is higher than the three years in prison which had been requested by the public prosecutor.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The former leader of the presidential party Jean-Marc Kabund, prosecuted in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for &#8220;insulting the head of state&#8221; , was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison, his defense announced.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A high court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced presidential candidate Jean-Marc Kabund to seven years in prison on 12 charges including spreading false rumours and insulting the head of state, his lawyer said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Jean-Marc-Kabund1-1200x600-1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Jean-Marc-Kabund1-1200x600-1-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Jean-Marc-Kabund1-1200x600-1-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Jean-Marc-Kabund1-1200x600-1-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Jean-Marc-Kabund1-1200x600-1-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Kabund was a former vice president of parliament and a close associate of President Felix Tshisekedi who launched his own political party last year after the two fell out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been held in Kinshasa&#8217;s main prison since\u00a0his arrest\u00a0in August 2022, after he called Tshisekedi a &#8220;danger&#8221; and lambasted his government in a speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court sentenced him to four months each for the first nine offences and 16 months each for the last three,&#8221; Kabund&#8217;s lawyer Kadi Diko told Reuters, adding that the most serious offences were &#8220;spreading false rumours&#8221; and &#8220;contempt for head of state and parliament&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is an extremely harsh decision, especially as there is no appeal,&#8221; the lawyer added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kabund was not present for the verdict, but in a hearing last month defended himself and repeated his remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have asked the people to do everything in their power to ensure that Mr Tshisekedi is excluded from the next elections, because I believe that the country is in great danger under his leadership,&#8221; he told the court in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congo is expected to hold a general election on Dec. 20 in which Tshisekedi is likely to seek a second term. Political tensions have been rising ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An opposition spokesman was&nbsp;shot dead&nbsp;in the capital Kinshasa in July, while opposition parties have held&nbsp;violent demonstrations&nbsp;denouncing irregularities in voter registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kabund was sentenced by the Court of Cassation, one of Congo&#8217;s highest courts, which does not allow appeals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2021-05-18T202102Z_1197973976_RC2JIN9J0K3S_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-AFRICA-SUMMIT.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-636\" style=\"width:839px;height:559px\" width=\"839\" height=\"559\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong>Democratic Republic of the Congo\/President, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sca_esv=565294999&amp;sxsrf=AM9HkKkAjQVpaJfG9lo8nIAF0ZSSM-84kQ:1694684937276&amp;q=Felix+Tshisekedi&amp;stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLVT9c3NEypyDEoMspNfsRowS3w8sc9YSn9SWtOXmPU5OIKzsgvd80rySypFJLmYoOyBKX4uVB18ixiFXBLzcmsUAgpzsgsTs1OTckEAK0CcA1fAAAA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjgzMSt6amBAxXA9LsIHXgoBdYQzIcDKAB6BAgpEAE\">Felix Tshisekedi<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He had announced his intention to run for president as head of his &#8220;Alliance for Change&#8221; party in the upcoming vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The presidency is in no way concerned by court decisions,&#8221; said Tina Salama, spokesperson for Tshisekedi. &#8220;It is neither a plaintiff nor a civil party in this case and therefore cannot comment on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced presidential candidate Jean-Marc Kabund to seven years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.11 - 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