A U.S. citizen can proceed with claims that he was kidnapped and tortured by intelligence officials while working as a presidential candidate’s security adviser in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Congolese intelligence chief Kalev Mutond and Justice Minister Alexis Tambwe Mwamba are not immune from Darryl Lewis’s claims under the Torture Victims Protection Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled March 12.
The decision revives Lewis’s claim that he was arrested during an April 2016 rally for opposition candidate Moise Katumbi, assaulted by police, transported to the capital of Kinshasa, and tortured there for six weeks ...
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