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Special Rapporteur on Human Rights visits

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The call follows confirmation by a DRC official of reports of Ugandan rebel training camps in his country's northeastern territory
    KAMPALA

    UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Roberto Garreton arrived yesterday in Kinshasa, a UN press release said. He was scheduled to have meetings with the ministers of human rights, the interior, home affairs, and justice, individuals, representatives of NGOs and civil society and, tomorrow (Thursday), President Laurent-Desire Kabila. The Special Rapporteur was also scheduled to visit Lubumbashi on Saturday and Goma on Sunday before travelling back to Geneva on 23 February. Prior to his arrival, 86 prisoners were released on Sunday from the Makala Detention and Rehabilitation Centre in Kinshasa, Congolese state television reported yesterday. It said the number of prisoners at Makala was 2,086 -- more than 600 to be tried in civilian courts and 1,400 under military jurisdiction.

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