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Prisoners of war still await release

    ABIDJAN

    Guinea-Bissau’s 385 prisoners of war were still in jail on Tuesday, just under two weeks after Attorney General Amine Saad announced that at least 70 percent of them would be released conditionally, according to humanitarian sources in Bissau.

    “We are awaiting the return of the Attorney General (who is currently out of the country) to know exactly how many will be freed,” one source told IRIN.

    The detainees are mainly people loyal to ex-president Joao Bernardo Vieira who had fought against the Military Junta that deposed Vieira in May after launching a rebellion against him in June 1998.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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