South Sudanese court sentenced a prominent economist to two years in prison for disturbing the peace because he gave interviews to foreign media reports DenisDumo
Peter Biar Ajak, the South Sudan country director for the London School of Economics International Growth Centre based in Britain, greets a relative inside the courtroom in Juba, South Sudan June 11, 2019. REUTERS/Samir Bol
The case of Peter Biar Ajak, a former child refugee who returned to his native South Sudan as an internationally renowned academic, has thrown the spotlight on what rights groups say is repression of dissent in Africa’s youngest country. Biar was arrested in July, 2018 and charged with treason, although a court threw out those charges in April. He had been publicly critical of the way President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar approached peace talks to end the civil war.“The decision itself is in conflict with the constitution especially freedom of expression,” he told Reuters. “Peter Biar has been convicted for speaking to VOA Radio.
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