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Politician facing treason charges

    NAIROBI

    Catherine Nzuzi wa Mbombo, the leader of the former ruling party under the late Mobutu Sese Seko, the Mouvement populaire revolutionnaire (MPR), has been charged with treason, news organisations reported. They said she was arrested on 22 July for criticising the government’s plans to set up a transitional parliament. She was expected to appear before a military court on Tuesday, but failed to do so, after the hearing of her case was postponed for “unspecified” reasons until Wednesday, the Associated Press (AP) quoted her family members as saying. If convicted, she will face the death penalty.

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