00:00Free legal assistance for 500 destitute prisoners held beyond the lawful detention period in a Bangui prison.
00:11That's what 10 lawyers from the Central African Republic are offering.
00:17Financially backed by the UN, the initiative is being launched in partnership with the Ministry of Justice
00:23and aims to protect the fundamental rights of defendants and suspects.
00:29We'll start from the facts that we're going to establish.
00:36If there are detainees here who have exceeded the legal detention period,
00:41we will take it upon ourselves to write to the competent judicial authorities
00:47to repress that these deadlines be respected, or at least that these individuals be released
00:53because they're being detained beyond the legal period of preventative detention.
00:59Since the project was launched in July, around 150 detainees have been given an initial legal consultation.
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