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DR Congo Police Chief Suspended in Probe of Activist Death

HeadlineJun 07, 2010

The Democratic Republic of Congo has suspended its police chief and arrested several officers in a probe into the murder of the human rights campaigner Floribert Chebeya. Congo’s national police chief John Numbi has reportedly been put under house arrest. Floribert Chebeya headed the group Voice of the Voiceless. His body was found in his car on Wednesday. He had been due to meet the police chief the night before his death.

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