South Sudan: Missing File Blocks Justice for Rapes, Murder

Expand Judges sit in the courtroom during the trial of South Sudanese soldiers accused of a horrific attack on foreign aid workers in the Terrain hotel compound, at the court in the capital Juba, South Sudan, Tuesday May 30, 2017. © 2019 AP Images/Bullen Chol (Nairobi) – A missing case file is blocking appeals in the sexual assault case stemming from the July 11, 2016 attack on the Terrain hotel in Juba, South Sudan, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Legal Action Worldwide said today. The case file has not been seen since it was sent to President Salva Kiir in 2018. One year…

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