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  • Nobel peace laureate Denis Mukwege was again put under the guard of United Nations security forces on Wednesday, after serious death threats against him prompted protests and international outcry calling for his protection. Mukwege, a gynaecologist who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his work against sexual violence in war, tweeted in late July that he was threatened after he condemned a massacre in his strife-torn eastern region of DR Congo. His communications chief Maud-Salome Ekila said that UN police officers returned to Mukwege's Panzi hospital near Bukavu on Wednesday after withdrawing in May. "There was zero protection until today when they arrived at 10 am (0800 GMT)," she told AFP. A spokesman for the UN mission in DR Congo confirmed to AFP that the security detail had been withdrawn. "The police officers who were directly assigned to securing the Panzi clinic had to be withdrawn due to Covid cases," the MONUSCO spokesman said. Mukwege has been living at the Panzi hospital, which cares for women raped in South Kivu province, since he survived an attack at his home in 2012 in which a security guard was killed. There have been renewed fears for his safety July after he and his relatives were threatened following a tweet of his condemning the massacre of 18 people in South Kivu. Several hundred people marched in Bukavu last week -- including women he treated in Panzi -- as well as the capital Kinshasa calling for his protection. Amnesty International on Friday called on the government and the UN to "take urgent and concrete measures to protect Denis Mukwege". On the same day, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said "his life seems to be at serious risk". Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN chief Antonio Guterres, told the media on Tuesday that "we have continued to work closely with Dr Mukwege and the Congolese authorities". "The personal security of Congolese personalities is a responsibility of the national authorities, but the peacekeeping mission is providing all possible support within its limited means." In addition to his work as a gynaecologist, Mukwege, 65, has been campaigning for punishment of rights abuses committed during the two Congo Wars, of 1996-98 and 1998-2003, whose aftermath still afflicts the east of the country today. st/bmb/dl/tgb
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  • Nobel laureate Mukwege gets UN protection after death threats
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