DRC opposition leader Fayulu demands probe after rally brutally dispersed

Congolese opposition leader Martin Fayulu has demanded an investigation after protection forces brutally dispersed a rally he called over election reforms.

Police fired in the air in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo capital on Wednesday to disperse Fayulu's supporters, injuring a few inside the process.

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"We had more than 30 arrests, more than 20 injured. Now we are told that everyone has been released, we still have two or three people we are looking for in Kinshasa. But what is serious is that I was brutalized, I was touched, I was molested and I was insulted like rotten fish," said Fayulu.

Fayulu lost to Felix Tshisekedi inside the 2018 election that many observers say turned into rigged.

He is accused Tshisekedi of in search of to undermine the election commission's independence ahead of the 2023 vote.

In June, the national assembly that's dominated by using Tshisekedi's loyalists passed a change that became touted through the government as critical to bolster the independence of the commission.

Fayulu has maintained that Tshisekedi, who got here to power after a shock alliance with former President Joseph Kabila, is an illegitimate president.