Jounalist & Media Violations

South Sudanese editor arrested after calling on Kiir & Machar to step down

South Sudanese security personnel on Saturday arrested Alfred Taban, the editor in chief of an independent English newspaper, the Juba Monitor, family members and journalists said.Ann Nimiriano Nunu Siya, the associate editor at the paper, said in an interview on Saturday that she received a call fr ...

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Security arrest, release radio journalist

National Security Service personnel who detained radio journalist Gale Julius after a court session in Juba last night released him at about 5:30 p.m. last night.Radio Tamazuj was informed that the security were displeased that the journalist had taken photos inside the court, saying they ...

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Two journalists arrested in Juba over report on SPLA general

Police authorities at Malakia police station in South Sudan’s capital Juba have arrested two journalists working for al-Watan Arabic daily newspaper this morning over alleged defamation of an SPLA general.The arrested journalists are chief editor Michael Christopher, who formerly worked as a p ...

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SPLA officer killed, two injured in Unity State

he Minister of Information of Northern Liech State Lam Tungwar says an SPLA officer with the rank of captain was killed and two of his assistants were injured in attack by SPLA-IO.Northern Liech is one of three proposed successor states to the government of Unity State.Speaking to Radio Tamazuj, Tun ...

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Journalist Afandy disappears, again

The family of Joseph Afandy, a journalist who was working for the al-Thabeer newspaper says he has gone missing, again.This comes few weeks after he was released from detention.His father, Joseph Deng says the family last saw Mr Afandy on Friday.“I don’t know what happened to him,” ...

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Opinion writer kidnapped, beaten and ‘dumped’

A newspaper opinion writer has been beaten and dumped at a graveyard in Juba, a civil society group has reported.Community Empowerment for Progress says Joseph Chan Awer was found unconscious on Tuesday morning at Juba’s Rock City suburb in a bad condition.Mr Joseph writes opinion article ...

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South Sudanese journalist shot dead in capital

UBA Aug 20 (Reuters) - A South Sudanese journalist was shot dead while leaving a newspaper's office late on Wednesday, his colleagues said.Peter Julius Moi, who worked with the independent New Nation newspaper in Juba, was shot as he headed home after work, his colleagues at the paper said, ...

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Journalists blocked from covering S Sudan budget report

Security personnel in Juba yesterday blocked journalists from covering a joint session of the Finance and Economic Committees at which it was reported that the 2014/2015 budget was overspent.Plainclothes security personnel removed the journalists from the parliament as the hearing got underway.In ge ...

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Al-Rai Arabic Newspaper shutdown by National Security

According to its Chief Editor Michael Wazir, one of their board members went to Nairobi to see his family but the security told them on Saturday that their board member went to Nairobi to join the rebel . Subsequently they ordered for the closure of the newspaper.

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South Sudan Security operatives shut the Daily English Newspaper 'The Citizen

South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) shut down two newspapers and locked up the offices of a radio station this week, dealing a sharp new blow to freedom of expression as the country sinks further into a horrifically abusive conflict.