跟进：肯尼亚邪教头目马肯齐被判200年监禁：191人被谋杀、其中190名是儿童
蒙巴萨——肯尼亚蒙巴萨高等法院11月6日判处邪教头目保罗·马肯齐（Paul Mackenzie）200年监禁：他因谋杀191人被定罪，受害者中190名是儿童、1名是成年人。法官戴安娜·卡韦扎（Diana Kavedza）宣判时表示，刑期由两部分组成——以饥饿方式致人死亡的谋杀判100年、直接杀害的谋杀判100年，两段刑期依次执行。
卡韦扎说，她没有判处死刑，是因为死刑反而可能强化被告「死亡即可与耶稣团聚」的信念、起不到阻吓作用。她指出，马肯齐把信徒迁往偏远地点、下令他们绝食致死，负有「首要刑事责任」；191名受害者中183人死于饥饿。马肯齐在宣判过程中多次露出微笑，并与身旁的助理牧师交谈——后者被判160年监禁。
马肯齐是「好消息国际教会」（Good News International Church）的创办人。他宣称世界末日将于2023年8月到来，劝信徒抛弃家园、搬进肯尼亚东部基利菲县的沙卡霍拉（Shakahola）森林绝食「迎接耶稣」。2023年4月起，警方在森林的浅坟中陆续挖出数百具遗体，肯尼亚国家人权委员会统计共发现448具遗体，事件震惊全国。
今年10月19日，法院裁定马肯齐与另外28名被告的191项谋杀罪名全部成立；29名被告均可在14天内提出上诉。马肯齐还另案面临与另外200多名受害者有关的恐怖主义与过失杀人指控，以及在另两家法院审理的虐待儿童与酷刑指控，他对这些指控均不认罪。（来源：路透社）
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肯尼亚法院裁定饥饿邪教头目马肯齐等人谋杀罪成 涉190名儿童与1名成人死亡
Kenyan Cult Leader Mackenzie Sentenced to 200 Years for Murdering 191 People, 190 of Them Children
Mombasa — A Kenyan court on Friday, November 6, sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years in prison for the murders of 191 people, 190 of them children and one an adult. Sentencing at the Mombasa High Court, Lady Justice Diana Kavedza said the term comprised 100 years for murders committed by starvation and a further 100 years for murders by direct homicide, the two to run consecutively.
Kavedza said she did not impose the death penalty because it could strengthen the convicts' belief that dying would reunite them with Jesus, rather than deter them. She ruled that Mackenzie bore primary criminal culpability for relocating his followers to a remote location and ordering them to fast to death; 183 of the 191 victims died of starvation. Mackenzie smiled several times during the sentencing and chatted with his assistant pastor beside him, who was sentenced to 160 years.
Mackenzie founded the Good News International Church. Preaching that the world would end in August 2023, he persuaded followers to abandon their homes and move to the Shakahola forest in Kilifi County, on Kenya's coast, to starve themselves in order to 'meet Jesus.' From April 2023, police exhumed hundreds of bodies from shallow graves in the forest; the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights counts 448 bodies in total, in a case that shocked the country.
On October 19, the court convicted Mackenzie and 28 co-defendants on all 191 murder counts; all 29 have 14 days to appeal. Mackenzie also faces separate terrorism and manslaughter charges relating to more than 200 further victims, as well as child abuse and torture charges in two other courts, all of which he denies. (Source: Reuters)
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图片来源：图：肯尼亚蒙巴萨市地标象牙拱门（资料图）；马肯齐案在蒙巴萨高等法院宣判。照片：Mhussein5477，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Mombasa Tusks landmark in Mombasa, Kenya (file photo); the Mackenzie case was sentenced at the Mombasa High Court. Photo by Mhussein5477, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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