Families of Americans ensnared in DRC coup plot assert their innocence

Young Americans face death penalty for ‘amateurish’ assault in Congo that was led by one of their fathers The family of a Utah student sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for his alleged role in a failed coup d’etat in which his father was killed fears he and two other Americans could be executed within days without US government intervention.Marcel Malanga, 22, was one of dozens convicted and sentenced at a military tribunal in Kinshasa last week, after the