Top lawyer downplays case against Machar's ex-spokesman Gatdet
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Elisabeth Janaina
Sep 12, 2017, 4:00:49 AM9/12/17
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Top lawyer downplays case against Machar's ex-spokesman Gatdet
The lawyer for rebel leader Riek Machar’s former spokesman James
Gatdek Dak at a criminal court in Juba has rubbished the National
Security Bureau’s charges against his client.
Gatdet is accused of inciting violence, treason, disseminating false
information to the detriment of South Sudanese national security, and
insulting President Kiir under the South Sudanese penal code of 2008.
Senior lawyer Monyluak Alor Kuol told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that the
charge sheet filed by the national security office in Juba against
James Gatdet was “baseless.”
“We are saying that the charges against Gatdet are baseless because
all what he wrote and posted on his Facebook following fighting in
Juba it was because he was a press secretary for one of the political
entities,” he said.
Alor argued that his client is facing serious charges based on his
political affiliation and that he should be pardoned together with
political detainees.
He pointed out that the high court sitting that was conducted last
week has been adjourned until September 15. “We will discuss with the
complainant who is from the national security, so he will come to the
court on Friday,” he said.
Monyluak said his client was tortured once by a security agent and
that Gatdet lost weight in detention.
The lawyer for rebel leader Riek Machar’s former spokesman James
Gatdek Dak at a criminal court in Juba has rubbished the National
Security Bureau’s charges against his client.
Gatdet is accused of inciting violence, treason, disseminating false
information to the detriment of South Sudanese national security, and
insulting President Kiir under the South Sudanese penal code of 2008.
Senior lawyer Monyluak Alor Kuol told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that the
charge sheet filed by the national security office in Juba against
James Gatdet was “baseless.”
“We are saying that the charges against Gatdet are baseless because
all what he wrote and posted on his Facebook following fighting in
Juba it was because he was a press secretary for one of the political
entities,” he said.
Alor argued that his client is facing serious charges based on his
political affiliation and that he should be pardoned together with
political detainees.
He pointed out that the high court sitting that was conducted last
week has been adjourned until September 15. “We will discuss with the
complainant who is from the national security, so he will come to the
court on Friday,” he said.
Monyluak said his client was tortured once by a security agent and
that Gatdet lost weight in detention.
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