South Sudanese Officials Intimidate Sex Worker on Camera

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Three sex workers sit at their workplace in Juba, South Sudan on March 5, 2018. © 2018 AP Photo A video, posted to Facebook by the Office of the Mayor of Juba City Council, shows a group of male officials and armed police officers harassing and taunting a female sex worker. “Are you a sex seller, don’t you know you are spoiling this country…Before we take you for [medical] examination, are you infected?” one man said. The woman, visibly afraid, answers their questions. The video, which is clearly intended to humiliate and stigmatize its target, demonstrates yet again…

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