{"id":278367,"date":"2025-04-10T01:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/congo-repatriates-3-americans-sentenced-to-death-over-failed-coup\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T01:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T01:05:08","slug":"congo-repatriates-3-americans-sentenced-to-death-over-failed-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/congo-repatriates-3-americans-sentenced-to-death-over-failed-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Repatriates 3 Americans Sentenced to Death Over Failed Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three American citizens who had been sentenced to death over a failed coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sent back to the United States on Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman for the Congolese presidency.<\/p>\n

The American men were among 37 people sentenced to death<\/a> seven months ago for participating in a May 2024 attack on Congo\u2019s government that included a gunfight near the presidential palace. Congo\u2019s presidency said last week that the three Americans \u2014 Marcel Malanga, Tyler Thompson and Benjamin Zalman-Polun \u2014 were granted individual clemency and had their death sentences commuted<\/a> to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

The Congolese presidency\u2019s spokeswoman, Tina Salama, posted photographs<\/a> of them boarding a plane on Tuesday. She said that the plane was bound for the United States, where the three men would serve their sentences.<\/p>\n

Tammy Bruce, a State Department spokeswoman, confirmed on Tuesday<\/a> that the three men had been transferred, telling a news conference that \u201cthey\u2019re in our custody.\u201d But there was no comment from the Justice Department as of Wednesday about where, how, or if the men would serve their sentences in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n