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Rwanda to release 30,000 prisoners on provisional basis David Shucosky at 3:54 PM ET [JURIST] The government of Rwanda [official website] announced Monday that it would release up to 30,000 prisoners suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide [Wikipedia backgrounder] and other war crimes on a provisional basis. According to the Prosecutor General, those to be released [AllAfrica.com report] are mostly the elderly, those under 18 at the time of the genocide, and those who have been detained for many years. The release, however, is not an amnesty; those freed may still face charges in local courts. BBC News has more. Link | 
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