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Floribert Chebeya
Floribert Chebeya Bahizire (13 September 1963 – 2 June 2010) was a leading Congolese human rights activist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hailed by the United Nations as "a champion of human rights". His death led to calls for an investigation from more than 50 organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, many countries and several senior UN officials, including Ban Ki-moon, Navi Pillay, Alan Doss and Philip Alston.
Career.
Bahizire was born in Bukavu. He
day from his place of exile in South Africa, accusing the presidential guard of the killing.
Her family were subsequently subject to threats and intimidation that made them fear claiming the body and arranging a funeral.
Floribert Chebeya, president of VSV, which was investigating the death, said he feared that the police were trying to put pressure on him by summoning him for a road accident that had happened almost a year earlier.
Floribert Chebeya was killed on 3 June 2010. He had been ordered to meet the national