South Sudanese Officials Intimidate Sex Worker on Camera

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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