Diomi ndongala biography of nancy

The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,

Having before it the case of Mr. Eugène Diomi Ndongala, a member of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which has been examined by the Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians following the Procedure for the treatment by the Inter-Parliamentary Union of communications concerning violations of the human rights of members of parliament,

Referring to the information provided by the Speaker of the National Assembly in his letter of 16 October 2012, by the National Assembly delegation heard by the Committee during the 127th IPU Assembly (Quebec, October 2012), and by the sources,

Considering the following elements on file:

• According to the sources, Mr. Diomi Ndongala, an opposition member of parliament, was “taken away” by national police officers acting on the orders of Colonel Kanyama on 27 June 2012, the day on which he was to att