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At least 100 people have been arrested after last week's apparent attempt to assassinate President Lansana Conte, a human rights group says. They are being held in abominable conditions, Thierno Maadjou Sow, the head of the Guinean Organisation of Human Rights, told Reuters news agency. Some of those arrested have been released but others are still being questioned by the security forces.