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The military auditor in Congo has formally sought the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia for serious war crimes including homicide, rape, and torture, amid ongoing political and military turmoil in the country.
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been charged in a military court in Kampala with illegal possession of firearms and negotiating to buy arms abroad, following his alleged kidnapping from Kenya. His wife, Winnie Byanyima, claims he was seized in Nairobi and returned to Uganda, where he is being held in a military jail. Besigye, a long-time critic of President Yoweri Museveni, has contested multiple presidential elections and faced numerous arrests. His case has raised concerns about forced deportations in Kenya, once seen as a safe haven for refugees.
The Pentagon plans to challenge a military court's ruling that invalidated Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's decision to cancel plea deals for 9/11 co-conspirators, which would have spared them the death penalty. The court deemed Austin's action improper, asserting he overstepped his authority. The plea deals involved Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others, who are being tried as enemy combatants for their roles in the 9/11 attacks.
A Russian military court sentenced two soldiers, Anton Sopov and Stanislav Rau, to life imprisonment for murdering a family of nine in occupied Ukraine's Donetsk region. The soldiers were convicted of breaking into the Kapkanets family's home in Volnovakha and killing them, marking a rare acknowledgment by Russia of crimes committed by its forces in Ukraine. The trial was held in secrecy, and the soldiers plan to appeal the ruling. Conflicting reports suggest motives ranging from a domestic dispute to refusal to vacate the home.
Colonel Mike Mikombe, the former commander of the elite Republican Guard in Goma city, has been sentenced to death by a military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo for his involvement in the killing of over 50 anti-UN protesters. The protesters were demanding the withdrawal of UN troops, accusing them of failing to protect civilians from rebel attacks. Mikombe's lawyers plan to appeal the ruling. This was the highest number of deaths in a crackdown on protests against UN peacekeepers in eastern DR Congo.