{"id":14025,"date":"2022-01-19T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court"},"modified":"2022-01-19T20:01:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:01:21","slug":"chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court","title":{"rendered":"Chebeya trial: DRC’s former president Kabila won’t appear in court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>DRC\u2019s Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in court hearing in the trial of the assassination of Floribert Chebeya and Fid\u00e8le Bazana.<\/b><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Kinshasa-Gombe High military court rejected the request to hear former President Kabila. Lawyers of late human rights defender Floribert Chebeya and his driver Fid\u00e8le Bazana hoped to hear him.<\/p>\n

Eleven years after the disappearance of their clients, the legal professionals were counting on the testimony of Joseph Kabila to clear up grey areas.<\/p>\n

Paul Mwilambwe, one of the police officers found guilty of the murders in 2011 trial, had mentioned the former president. The culprit designated Kabila together with other political figures as being meddled with the assassination scheme.<\/p>\n

Refering to the discretionary power their position grants them, the judges did not further explain the motives behind their decision. The inquiry into the prominent activist\u2019s murder will proceed.<\/p>\n

Congolese Chebeya was found dead in 2010 and investigation on the unaccounted disappearance of his driver were not conclusive. A widely critized first trial ended in 2011. However, last year, an inquiry was reopened.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Malawi<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Malawi. DRC\u2019s Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in court hearing in the trial of the assassination of Floribert Chebeya and Fid\u00e8le Bazana. On Wednesday, the Kinshasa-Gombe High military court rejected the request to hear former President Kabila. Lawyers of late human rights defender Floribert Chebeya and his driver Fid\u00e8le Bazana hoped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":14024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,256,3874,668,1919,234],"class_list":["post-14025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-court","tag-drc-crisis","tag-human-rights","tag-justice","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"\nChebeya trial: DRC's former president Kabila won't appear in court - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DRC\u2019s Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in court hearing in the trial of the assassination of Floribert ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chebeya trial: DRC's former president Kabila won't appear in court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DRC\u2019s Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in court hearing in the trial of the assassination of Floribert ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-19T19:45:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-19T20:01:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"538\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chebeya trial: DRC’s former president Kabila won’t appear in court\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-19T19:45:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-19T20:01:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court\"},\"wordCount\":203,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Court\",\"DRC Crisis\",\"human rights\",\"justice\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court\",\"name\":\"Chebeya trial: DRC's former president Kabila won't appear in court - Malawi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-19T19:45:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-19T20:01:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"DRC\u2019s Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in court hearing in the trial of the assassination of Floribert ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":538,\"caption\":\"Chebeya trial: DRC's former president Kabila won't appear in court\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Chebeya trial: DRC’s former president Kabila won’t appear in court\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/\",\"name\":\"Malawi\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Chebeya trial: DRC's former president Kabila won't appear in court - Malawi","description":"DRC\u2019s Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in court hearing in the trial of the assassination of Floribert ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Chebeya trial: DRC's former president Kabila won't appear in court","og_description":"DRC\u2019s Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in court hearing in the trial of the assassination of Floribert ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court","og_site_name":"Malawi","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-01-19T19:45:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-19T20:01:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":538,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Chebeya trial: DRC’s former president Kabila won’t appear in court","datePublished":"2022-01-19T19:45:10+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-19T20:01:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court"},"wordCount":203,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Malawi","Court","DRC Crisis","human rights","justice","Malawi"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court","name":"Chebeya trial: DRC's former president Kabila won't appear in court - Malawi","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg","datePublished":"2022-01-19T19:45:10+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-19T20:01:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"DRC\u2019s Former President Joseph Kabila will not appear in court hearing in the trial of the assassination of Floribert ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/01\/img-61e86df1bb972.jpg","width":1024,"height":538,"caption":"Chebeya trial: DRC's former president Kabila won't appear in court"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chebeya-trial-drcs-former-president-kabila-wont-appear-in-court#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Chebeya trial: DRC’s former president Kabila won’t appear in court"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/","name":"Malawi","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}