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Journalists union urges South Sudan to release detained editor
October 12, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudan Journalists General Union has called for the release of the editor of The Citizen who has been detained by the South Sudan government.
Nhial Bol, editor-in-chief of the Citizen paper, was arrested Friday after he published an article discussing high salaries paid to officials in South Sudan’s ministry of legal affairs.
The Journalists’ Union said Sunday the government should respect the Press and Publications Act, 2004 and the instructions by the Minister of Justice not to detain journalists in cases of public opinion.
“I have been told I will be held for three days without bail,” Bol said yesterday.
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J.James
Journalists union urges South Sudan to release detained editor
Wow:
I am really feeling pity for Mr. Bol the really southerner. Nhial Bol has been jailed by arab regimes for tens of times if not hundred times for publishing truth about Khartoum injustics, and now the greed folks from his own region added more wound on his already weakened body. This is ridiculus indeed.
For 22 years, southerners fought to achieve democracy and now some leaders prefered dollars than democracy what the shame.
Anyway, all in all, Nhial Bol must be realised without pre-conditions for God’s sake. Please give journalist space to do their job because those who threaten journalist freedom normally threaten world democracy and therefore they will face ICC and we will approve that uninamously.
I hope that work
God bless.
The writer is the spear hunter around Nanaham, Kongkong, and Lotila rivers, the next democratic president of south sudan.