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Prisoner Release – 2001

International organizations had such as International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), local human rights NGOs such as Congolese Observatory for Human Rights (OCDH), the association for the human rights of Incarcerated (ADHUC) and a Catholic Church Organization visited prisons throughout 2001. There were no political prisoners.¹ According to the U.S. State department report, in 2001 there were no political prisoners being detained by the government of Republic of Congo.²

1. “The Republic of Congo Country Report-April 2004,” Home Office, 2004, accessed June 21, 2012, http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/40a887857.pdf.
2. “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices- 2001- Republic of Congo,” U.S. State Department, 2002, accessed February 27, 2012, http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8335.htm.