June 12, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan economist and civil rights activist, Peter Biar Ajak, who was detained by the notorious national security service in South Sudan, has said that he was blacklisted following his release from detention this year. Biar was arrested in mid 2018 at Juba International Airport while boarding a plane for a Red Army function in […]
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February 19, 2020 (SSNN)—Human Rights Watch, a human rights watchdog, has called on South Sudanese lawmakers to enact security laws that enforce reforms to the South Sudan Security Service (NSS), an infamous security institution that has broad powers over citizens to arrest, torture, and eliminate government critics. “South Sudan’s National Assembly should urgently enact reforms of the National Security Service […]
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January 24th, 2020 (SSNN)—The South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy (SSHURSA) a rights advocacy group, honors January 23, in memory of Samuel Dong Luak and Agrey Idri – two human rights defenders kidnapped in Kenya and murdered in South Sudan by the country’s National Security Service. “23 January 2020 marks three years when Dong Samuel, a human rights lawyer […]
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January 2nd, 2020 (SSNN)—South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has issued a presidential pardon on New Year’s Eve, absolving about 30 defendants convicted of various criminal offenses in the South Sudanese capital, Juba. Last week, during a visit to detention centers in Juba, President Kiir gave an assurance and promised to release some of the accused as a sign of […]
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