South Sudan President to visit Juba Central prison next week ArticleComments (2)EmailPrintSave
December 1, 2017 (JUBA) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir is due to visit the country’s main prison next week. South Sudan President Salva Kiir waits for the arrival of his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta, in Juba on May 23, 2013. (Photo Reuters) Kiir, sources toldSudan Tribune, will in his first ever visit to the prison meet Juba Central Prison authorities as well as inmates, less than a week after his deputy James Wani Igga made a similar visit. Igga had earlier informed Juba prison authorities about the president’s consideration of granting amnesty for several inmates imprisoned for various offenses across the country. The move, he added, was part of efforts by the South Sudan leader to implement the national dialogue initiative. Observers, however, say for the president to personally go to prison as promised, sends a strong message to skeptics who doubt the success of the dialogue initiative.The president, they argued, is now mostly likely to win over so many people who doubt his dialogue initiative by giving his visit to the nation’s central prison a symbolic significance. Under Article 101 (H) of South Sudan’s Transitional Constitution 2011, the President has the authority to “confirm death sentences, grant pardons, and remit convictions or penalties according to this Constitution and the law”. The President, under Article 5.2.16 of the Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (ARCSS), has powers to “Confirm death sentences, grant pardons, and commute convictions and penalties in accordance with the law.” By visiting the detention facility, the president would have taken a giant step forward in his efforts to reach out to South Sudanese in the new spirit of national dialogue. (ST) Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect. - No inciting violence- No inappropriate or offensive language- No racism, tribalism or sectarianism- No inappropriate or derogatory remarks- No deviation from the topic of the article- No advertising, spamming or links - No incomprehensible commentsDue to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site. There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to [email protected] Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. 1 JANUARY 10:02, BY Eastern Not only Juba Central prison, Kiir should unconditionally release those he is holding illegally in the National Security Service detention facilities in Juba especially the infamous Blue house.... REPONDRE MESSAGE 1 JANUARY 11:40, BY Fair Man Eastern Not only, the Prison or National Security but also the SPLA Military Intelligence at Giada. They are holding scores of victims which were never charged. All the continuous detention without rule of law, are threats to so-called national dialogue. Arresting someone is the beginning of justice but detaining a person for years without trial is injustice. REPONDRE MESSAGE -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14ooKPTyC9W6Y1nrtHXyp0%3DP75%2BV2_FAGb54o2HFGWNY1cA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
