International NGO Human Rights Watch is calling on South Sudan to investigate the forced disappearances of Dong Samuel Luak and Aggrey Idri, who went missing from the streets of Nairobi in January 2017. Luak, left, a human rights lawyer and critic of President Salva Kiir’s government, held refugee status in…
In South Sudan, the SPLM-IO has called shameful the decision to condemn James Gatdet Dak, a former spokesman for exiled opposition leader Riek Machar, to death by hanging on charges of treason. “When the regime should be working to create a conducive environment for negotiations, they are instead handing down…
United Nations experts have asked Kenya and South Sudan to provide information about two South Sudanese men abducted from the streets of Nairobi three weeks ago. Dong Samuel Luak, a South Sudanese refugee and human rights advocate seen in the left photo, was in downtown Nairobi heading to catch a…
Kenya is again being accused of kidnapping South Sudanese opposition leaders critical of Salva Kiir’s leadership, a senior SPLM-IO official tells the independent South Sudan News Agency. According to the Nairobi-based outlet, Dong Samuel Luak was taken Monday evening from his home by people who identified themselves as Kenyan police…