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Article

4 Aug 2009

Author:
AFP

Over 200 NGOs Press Congo Pres Kabila To Free Rights Activist [Dem. Rep. of Congo]

More than 200 non-governmental organizations Monday asked President Joseph Kabila to free a human rights activist who had reported on illegal uranium mining in southeastern Congo... Misabiko, president of the African Association for the Defence of Human Rights, or Asadho, in Katanga province, was picked up by intelligence agents on July 24 and taken to the court premises in the provincial capital, Lubumbashi, where he is still being held. On July 13, Asadho had published a report on a uranium mine at Shinkolobwe, covering both artisanal mining there for copper and a deal signed between Congo and French nuclear group Areva SA...