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Catholic rights group threatens to free hundreds of inmates |
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Written by Bruce Boweh
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Saturday, 17 April 2010 |
The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission has threatened legal actions to dismiss hundreds of government cases.
JPC Executive Director, Augustine Toe, said the actions will force government to prosecute or release hundreds of people being kept in jail without trial.
Cllr.Toe made the statement Friday at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia.
The JPC’s threat followed the failure of a hearing into another dismissal motion it filed against the state for failure to proceed.
The motion, filed on March 31 this year, seeks the dismissal of rape charges against five men.
They have been in jail since 2007 without trial in violation of Liberian laws.
Section 18.2 of the Criminal Procedure Law of Liberia says anyone accused of an indictable offense must be indicted and tried within two terms of court.
Government in 2009 admitted having hundreds of people in pre-trial detention but has done nothing to release or try them in violation of the law.
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