Firmin Mvonde Mambu, the Public Prosecutor of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has ordered regional prosecutors to initiate proceedings “against the perpetrators of deviant practices of a sexual and homosexual nature, as well as the perpetrators of noise pollution”. An illegal decision The order targeting LGBT people and those who disturb the peace was issued on June 19, four days after the DRC’s new Minister of Justice, Constant Mutamba, sent a letter to Mvonde, urging public prosecutors to prosecute homosexuals even though the country has no anti-gay law. Consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex are not a crime under current law in the DRC.