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DR Congo repatriates three US citizens convicted over failed coup

Benjamin Reuben Zalman-Polun, left, Marcel Malanga and Tyler Thompson, all American citizens, in a Kinshasa court in September, 2024. The three are being repatriated after having their death sentences overturned [File: Samy Ntumba Shambuyi/AP Photo]

Three United States citizens initially sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over a botched coup attempt have been repatriated after Kinshasa commuted their death sentences to life imprisonment last week.

Congolese presidential spokesperson Tina Salama said on Tuesday that the three men, including the son of political exile Christian Malanga, who led the attack on the presidential palace in May last year, would all serve out their life sentences in the US.

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