Pastor Daniel Ngoy Mulunda was on Wednesday sentenced to three years in prison for undermining state security, a human rights organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Association of Access to Justice (ACAJ) has said.
Mulunda is a relative of ex- Congolese leader Joseph Kabila. The former served as president of the electoral commission early 2010 under Kabila.
His charges also included incitement to tribal hatred and spreading false rumors. Mulunda’s conviction is a fresh blow against the entourage of the ex-president Kabila.
His defence lawyer, Jean Mbuyu has denounced the sentence. ‘’The judgement against our client was delivered at night by the court in the absence of the defendant and his lawyers’’, he said.