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June 7, 2010

DR Congo Police Chief Suspended in Probe of Activist Death
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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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