Our Gbarnga correspondent says the 23 persons who were detained at the Zwedru Palace of Correction in Grand Gedeh County have arrived in Gbarnga and turned over to their Lawyers.

The 23 people, including Motorcyclists, Teachers, Students, Carpenters and others arrived in the Central provincial city Thursday evening, after being detained for more than two months on various charges ranging from Aggravated Assault to Criminal Conspiracy.

They were arrested by Police in the County in connection with a demonstration that took place in Gbarnga on February 27 this year and sent to Zwedru’s Palace of Correction, apparently to undergo rehabilitation for which the prison was created.

The February demonstration turned violent and resulted to the burning of a sub Police Depot in protest of the death of a Motorcyclist Armah Jeahwulu who was killed by unknown men on the Gbarnga-Melekie highway on February 26.

Their arrival followed three days after the 9^th Judicial Circuit Court in Bong County granted a bill to release them on bond.

Upon their arrival at the Court, most of the suspects told Our Correspondent, they were arrested by Nigerian Formed Police Officers at their various homes, suggesting they had nothing to do with the demonstration.

They are claiming that correctional officers from Monrovia tortured them, saying that they were badly beaten by Correction Officers, while in route to Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County.

According to them the correctional officers described them as “political prisoners”, and that it was based on that they flogged them on their way to prison in the southeastern county.

They alleged that they were fed with “Burger wheat” and “Pawpaw” while in detention, and displayed scars of injuries they allegedly sustained as a result of the beating.