Amnesty International warns one-year ‘state of siege’ being used as a tool to crush dissent in DRC with dozens of critics arbitrarily detained in North Kivu and Ituri provinces

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A State of Siege, which is similar to a state of emergency, enforced in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) authorities since May 2021 has been used as a tool to crush dissent, with two human rights activists killed by security forces and dozens of activists arbitrarily detained on trumped-up charges, Amnesty International said late on Monday in a new briefing.