European Parliament resolution of 23 January 2025 on the case of Jean-Jacques Wondo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2025/2510(RSP))

European Parliament 2024-2029 TEXTS ADOPTED P10_TA(2025)0003 Case of Jean-Jacques Wondo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo European Parliament resolution of 23 January 2025 on the case of Jean-Jacques Wondo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2025/2510(RSP)) The European Parliament, –having regard to its previous resolutions on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), –having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ratified by the DRC in 1976, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, –having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Fair Trial and Legal Assistance in Africa, –having regard to Rules 150(5) and 136(4) of its Rules of Procedure, A. whereas Jean-Jacques Wondo, a Belgian-Congolese security, military and political expert, was invited to Kinshasa in February 2024 to lead reforms of the Congolese National Intelligence Agency, the ANR; B. whereas Wondo was arrested following a failed coup on 19 May 2024, for which he was accused of being the ‘intellectual perpetrator’, despite consistently maintaining his innocence; whereas the charges were based on coerced and unreliable testimony; C. whereas on 13 September 2024, Wondo and 36 others were sentenced to death by a military court in a process widely condemned for serious violations of due process and the absence of credible evidence; D. whereas Wondo’s health has gravely deteriorated in...