Content_paragraphs:  On 8 March, the Military Operational Court of North Kivu convicted three
  
  defendants, accused of the attack on an Ebola treatment centre and of the murder of
  
  a WHO doctor in Butembo in April 2019. The Court acquitted five other defendants,
  
  including three women. A further 16 defendants, tried in absentia after escaping from
  
  Beni prison in October 2020, were convicted of criminal conspiracy and terrorism.
  
  Reportedly, 7 of the 15 defendants awaiting trial for the destruction of the office of
  
  the mayor of Beni and the MONUSCO base in Boikene in November 2019 had also
  
  escaped from Beni prison, while the remaining 8 had been provisionally released. 
  
   
  
   
  
   XIII. Observations