South Sudan: Reform Abusive Security Agency

Expand Riek Malual Kuei, a trader detained by NSS since October 2017 without charge. © 2017 Private. South Sudan’s National Assembly should urgently enact reforms of the National Security Service (NSS) to end arbitrary detention and abuse of detainees, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should also ensure that the security agency releases all those arbitrarily detained in Juba, the capital, and elsewhere in the country and hold all those responsible for abuses to account. “South Sudan’s national security agency has for years carried out a full-blown assault on critics of the government…

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