Jakarta –
Moreover Journalist arrested for allegedly distributing footage showing the president Southern Sudan Salva Kiir wet the bed during a formal event. This was revealed by the local national union of journalists.
The footage, which was uploaded in December 2022, shows dark spots spreading across President Kiir’s gray trousers.
The 71-year-old president stood as the national anthem played. The video was never shown on television but was later circulated on social media.
The journalists, who worked with the South Sudan Broadcasting Company, were arrested, said the president of the Union of South Sudanese Journalists, Patrick Oyet.
“Presumably they saw the president’s urine coming out,” he told Reuters.
South Sudan’s Information Minister Michael Makuei and National Security Service spokesman David Kumuri declined to comment.
Kiir has been president since South Sudan became independent in 2011. Government officials have repeatedly denied rumors circulating on social media that President Kiir is unwell. The country has been embroiled in conflicts in recent decades.
The arrested journalists were camera operators Joseph Oliver and Mustafa Osman, video editor Victor Lado, collaborator Jacob Benjamin and Cherbek Ruben and Joval Toombe from the control room, Oyet said.
“We are concerned that detained people are now living longer than required by law,” he added.
By law, South Sudanese authorities can only detain suspects for 24 hours before bringing them before a judge.
(eva/idn)
