Rwanda to free thousands of prisoners

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Kigali - Rwanda will this month grant bail to more than 4 500 prisoners to ease chronic overcrowding in the central African country's jails, state prosecutor Jean de Dieu Mucyo said Saturday.

"For the moment, we've drawn up a list of 4 582 common law prisoners to free, of a total of more than 12 000", Muyco told AFP, adding that the number could increase slightly in the next few days.

The prosecutor said the exercise will also concern some of the people who have been held in Rwanda for years for their alleged roles in the country's genocide of 1994, in which the government says a million people were killed.

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