DRC: Rights Groups Call for Marie Therese Nlandu's Release

The president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is being urged to release human rights lawyer and former presidential candidate Marie Therese Nlandu and her associates from prison. The calls come following the resumption of Nlandu's trial before a military tribunal in the Congo capital, Kinshasa, on January 24. The former presidential candidate and her associates have been charged with illegal possession of firearms and with organizing an "insurrectionary movement."