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Death sentence for businessmen trading currency with rebels

    NAIROBI

    Two Lebanese businessmen found guilty by a military court of espionage and of illegal foreign currency transactions with rebel forces in eastern DRC have been sentenced to death, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on Monday. Two other Lebanese businessmen were acquitted of the same charges, it said. Lebanon has since appealed to President Kabila for clemency, which is the condemned men’s only hope in the absence of an appeal mechanism in DRC’s military courts, the BBC stated on Tuesday.

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