Fred Bauma and Yves Makwambala among dozens of DRC youth group members in prison for demanding democratic changeTwo Democratic Republic of Congo activists are on starvation strike after the supreme court rejected their application for release from jail,where they acquire been held for more than a year without trial.
Fred Bauma and Yves Makwambala, members of the youth group Struggle for Change (Lucha), and were arrested on 15 March last year in a raid by security services on a meeting in Kinshasa. The government said at the time that the group was believed to be planning an attack against “state security”.
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Source: theguardian.com