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UNHCHR gets prison access

    NAIROBI

    The DRC government has authorised the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) to visit all prisons and detention centres in the country, a UN official told IRIN on Tuesday. In a letter to the UNHCHR office in Kinshasa, Minister of Justice Mwenze Kongolo said the authorisation was based on a 1996 agreement between the UN and the DRC. The new authorisation was of “great value”, particularly as it provided access to political detainees, prisoners of war and army deserters, the UN official said.

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