Joao da Costa, President of the Partido da Renovacao Democratica (PRD), Democratic Renewal Party, and Tagme Na Waie, member of the Resistencia da Guine-Bissau – Movimento Bafata (RGB-MB), Guinea-Bissau Resistance – Bafata Movement, were released on 6 August. They had been arrested on 2 August for criticizing the government in defiance of bail conditions imposed after a previous period of detention without charge or trial, which banned them from engaging in public political activities
