source: 7 Sur 7
actor1: Rioters (Democratic Republic of Congo)
actor2: Police Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (2019-)
location: Bukavu
notes: On 20 June 2020, groups of members and supporters of the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC) erected barricades and set tires on fire in Bukavu (Sud-Kivu) to express their outrage against the conviction of their leader Vital Kamerhe, sentenced to 20 years of hard labour over corruption in Kinshasa. The demonstrators, who claimed that the trial is a plot to remove Kamerhe from the 2023 political race, were dispersed by the police with tear gas and live ammunition shots. [size=no report]