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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-569/annex",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2018/569",
  "legislation_title": "Council Implementing Decision (CFSP) 2018/569 of 12 April 2018 implementing Decision 2010/788/CFSP concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic Republic of the Congo",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-569",
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  "number": null,
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  "text": "The entries concerning the persons listed below are replaced by the following entries:\n‘\n10.\nAlex Kande Mupompa, Former Governor of Kasai Central\na.k.a Alexandre Kande Mupomba; Kande-Mupompa.\nDOB: 23.9.1950.\nPOB: Kananga (DRC).\nDRC passport number: OP 0024910 (valid: 21.3.2016 — expiry: 20.3.2021).\nAddress: Messidorlaan 217/25, 1180 Uccle, Belgium\nDRC and Belgian nationalities.\nAs Governor of Kasai Central until October 2017, Alex Kande Mupompa has been responsible for the disproportionate use of force, violent repression and extrajudicial killings committed by security forces and the PNC in Kasai Central from August 2016, including killings on the territory of Dibaya in February 2017.\nAlex Kande Mupompa was therefore involved in planning, directing, or committing acts that constitute serious human rights violations in DRC.\n29.5.2017\n12.\nLambert Mende, Minister of Communications and Media, and spokesperson of the Government\na.k.a Lambert Mende Omalanga.\nDOB: 11.2.1953. POB: Okolo (DRC).\nDiplomatic passport number: DB0001939 (issued: 4.5.2017 — expiring: 3.5.2022).\nDRC nationality.\nAs Communications and Media Minister since 2008, Lambert Mende is responsible for the repressive media policy applied in DRC, which breaches the right to freedom of expression and information and undermines a consensual and peaceful solution towards elections in DRC. On 12 November 2016, he adopted a decree limiting the possibility for foreign media outlets to broadcast in the DRC.\nIn breach of the political agreement settled on 31 December 2016 between the presidential majority and opposition parties, broadcasts of a number of media outlets remained cut off for several months.\nIn his capacity as Communications and Media Minister, Lambert Mende is therefore responsible for obstructing a consensual and peaceful solution towards elections in DRC, including by acts of violence, repression or inciting violence, or by undermining the rule of law.\n29.5.2017\n’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/569/annex",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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