Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo arrested a senior opposition legislator, a day after he took part in a rally that was held to oppose extension of presidential terms limits, his party said.
Jean-Bertrand Ewanga, the general secretary of the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) party, was “arrested this morning very early at his home in Kinshasa after yesterday’s meeting,” said a statement posted on Twitter by Lydie Omanga, communications chief for UNC president Vital Kamerhe on Tuesday.
Thousands of people demonstrated in the capital on Monday to protest over suspicions that the rulers of the vast central African country intend to amend the constitution and enable President Joseph Kabila to stay in power beyond 2016, when he is due to step down after two five-year elected terms.
Security agents on Tuesday morning took Ewanga before the state prosecutor to hear “the charges against him: inciting hatred, tribalism and contempt of the supreme magistrature,” Omanga told AFP news agency, citing prosecution sources…
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