Rights body concerned over S. Sudan activists’ disappearance
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Rights body concerned over S. Sudan activists’ disappearance
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April 23, 2017 (NAIROBI) – The U.S-based Human Rights Watch said its
concerned about the lack of news on the fate of two South Sudanese
activists who disappeared from Nairobi three months ago.
Dong Samuel Luak, a well-known activist and Aggrey Idris, an
opposition official, disappeared on January 23 and 24 from Kenya.
The men are believed to have been abducted by or at the request of
South Sudan officials and taken illegally to South Sudan, where they
are likely to have been abused as the ones earlier detained.
Human Rights Watch, in a statement issued Monday, said it has
documented clear patterns of arbitrary detentions, abuse, and torture
by military and national security actors in South Sudan.
However, since their arrest, neither the Kenyan nor South Sudanese
authorities have responded to questions about the two men’s fate.
South Sudan’s information minister, Michael Makuei earlier denied the
two men were being detained by the security forces.
According to Human Rights Watch, credible sources disclosed that both
Luak and Idris were detained in the Juba headquarters of South Sudan’s
National Security Service (NSS) on January 26, two days after they
were forcibly disappeared from Nairobi and a day before the High Court
of Kenya ruled against their deportation.
Other sources reportedly told the rights body that the two men were
held in the NSS headquarters in Juba for a few nights and then
transferred elsewhere. Their current whereabouts remain unknown.
“Luak and Idris’ forcible disappearance shows that South Sudanese
actors are willing to cross borders to silence critics,” the New
York-based human rights body said, adding, “This is an especially
worrying development considering how many human rights activists and
civil society leaders have had to flee South Sudan since the war
started”.
Since the South Sudanese conflict broke out in December 2013, human
rights watch said it has documented cases of enforced disappearances,
defined as the detention and subsequent denial of detention by
authorities, especially in the Equatoria and Western Bahr el-Ghazal
regions where the South Sudan government has been pursuing abusive
counterinsurgency campaigns, including against people presumed to
support the opposition.
The rights body appealed to international actors, including the
African Union and Kenya, to ensure that South Sudan government
immediately investigates the case, produces and releases the
disappeared men, probe and hold those responsible accountable.
(ST)
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24 April 12:49, by Mohamed
And what about the spokesman of the splm-io?
is anybody asking about him?
Also a Kenyan delivery to south Sudan.
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24 April 13:11, by Dak tak
The terrorists in Juba thougt they could terrorise any south
sudanese opposing wherever he/she may be, that has however failed,but
only work in Kenya through so called weston Wanjohi who and the Juba
terrorists will answer for that crimes in the long run. We don’t fear
anyone except God and Dinka will never be king in that country for
life. Enough is enough.
repondre message
24 April 14:49, by PEACE FOR ALL
This issue is not Dinka via Nuer, it is of nation concern ya
nyagat. don not take things on tribal line. try t be nationalist for
the betterment of our future nation well beings.
repondre message
24 April 15:45, by Sunday Junup
We can advice the whole world to declare those thugs in Juba as
Terrorist. Also UN security council can take action on Kenyan why they
deported any one who went to them through exile. No freedom of speech.
repondre message
24 April 17:57, by Kush Natives
This is the result of untrained journalists, who generalized
everything in their dirty brains. We always try to correct you by not
saying thing that are not there, but you turned your deaf hears from
listening. The regime in Juba is not belong to Dinka nor Nuer, but for
all South Sudanese. You’re the one troubling yourselves!
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April 23, 2017 (NAIROBI) – The U.S-based Human Rights Watch said its
concerned about the lack of news on the fate of two South Sudanese
activists who disappeared from Nairobi three months ago.
Dong Samuel Luak, a well-known activist and Aggrey Idris, an
opposition official, disappeared on January 23 and 24 from Kenya.
The men are believed to have been abducted by or at the request of
South Sudan officials and taken illegally to South Sudan, where they
are likely to have been abused as the ones earlier detained.
Human Rights Watch, in a statement issued Monday, said it has
documented clear patterns of arbitrary detentions, abuse, and torture
by military and national security actors in South Sudan.
However, since their arrest, neither the Kenyan nor South Sudanese
authorities have responded to questions about the two men’s fate.
South Sudan’s information minister, Michael Makuei earlier denied the
two men were being detained by the security forces.
According to Human Rights Watch, credible sources disclosed that both
Luak and Idris were detained in the Juba headquarters of South Sudan’s
National Security Service (NSS) on January 26, two days after they
were forcibly disappeared from Nairobi and a day before the High Court
of Kenya ruled against their deportation.
Other sources reportedly told the rights body that the two men were
held in the NSS headquarters in Juba for a few nights and then
transferred elsewhere. Their current whereabouts remain unknown.
“Luak and Idris’ forcible disappearance shows that South Sudanese
actors are willing to cross borders to silence critics,” the New
York-based human rights body said, adding, “This is an especially
worrying development considering how many human rights activists and
civil society leaders have had to flee South Sudan since the war
started”.
Since the South Sudanese conflict broke out in December 2013, human
rights watch said it has documented cases of enforced disappearances,
defined as the detention and subsequent denial of detention by
authorities, especially in the Equatoria and Western Bahr el-Ghazal
regions where the South Sudan government has been pursuing abusive
counterinsurgency campaigns, including against people presumed to
support the opposition.
The rights body appealed to international actors, including the
African Union and Kenya, to ensure that South Sudan government
immediately investigates the case, produces and releases the
disappeared men, probe and hold those responsible accountable.
(ST)
Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following
rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their
Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect.
- No inciting violence
- No inappropriate or offensive language
- No racism, tribalism or sectarianism
- No inappropriate or derogatory remarks
- No deviation from the topic of the article
- No advertising, spamming or links
- No incomprehensible comments
Due to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on
the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site.
There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to
express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your
comment as an article to com...@sudantribune.com
Kind regards,
The Sudan Tribune editorial team.
24 April 12:49, by Mohamed
And what about the spokesman of the splm-io?
is anybody asking about him?
Also a Kenyan delivery to south Sudan.
repondre message
24 April 13:11, by Dak tak
The terrorists in Juba thougt they could terrorise any south
sudanese opposing wherever he/she may be, that has however failed,but
only work in Kenya through so called weston Wanjohi who and the Juba
terrorists will answer for that crimes in the long run. We don’t fear
anyone except God and Dinka will never be king in that country for
life. Enough is enough.
repondre message
24 April 14:49, by PEACE FOR ALL
This issue is not Dinka via Nuer, it is of nation concern ya
nyagat. don not take things on tribal line. try t be nationalist for
the betterment of our future nation well beings.
repondre message
24 April 15:45, by Sunday Junup
We can advice the whole world to declare those thugs in Juba as
Terrorist. Also UN security council can take action on Kenyan why they
deported any one who went to them through exile. No freedom of speech.
repondre message
24 April 17:57, by Kush Natives
This is the result of untrained journalists, who generalized
everything in their dirty brains. We always try to correct you by not
saying thing that are not there, but you turned your deaf hears from
listening. The regime in Juba is not belong to Dinka nor Nuer, but for
all South Sudanese. You’re the one troubling yourselves!
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