South Sudan sues chief of public security for detainee abuse
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August 11, 2011 (MALAKAL) — The government of South Sudan on Thursday
confirmed it is suing the Director of Public Security and Criminal
Investigation Department over allegations of detainee abuse next
Monday .
Major General Marial Nuor Jok, the chief of public security in South
Sudan was arrested three weeks ago by the order of President, Salva
Kiir Mayardit, following reports alleging his involvement in torture,
bribery and creation of illegal detention centers.
General Acuil Tito Madut, General Inspector of South Sudan Police
Service at the South Sudan ministry of interior Thursday told the
Sudan Tribune that time has come for the judiciary takes up their
duties on all the cases of detainee abuse.
"It is time for the judiciary system to speedy up processes on all
cases. Detention centers are supposed to hold suspects only for
specific periods (…) in order to facilitate primary investigation,"
said General Madut.
The general revealed that the court in Juba will on Monday conduct an
investigation on reports and charges brought against the chief of
public security and criminal investigation department and other
officials involved in the case.
"Yes, the court will resume hearing on Monday", Why can’t you call
them. They are the relevant authority to tell you more on this case",
said General Madut who declined to give additional comments.
Sudan Tribune has learned that seven high ranking officers including a
colonel are being held in connection to the case at Malakal police
detention centers, while General Jok remains under arrest at the
military barrack in Juba.
His personal lawyer maintains that he (General Jok) remains out of
reach by his close family members. " As of this morning, the military
police does not allow the visit of any of his close family. He remains
out of reach"; said Kiir Chol, a personal defense lawyer, who was
speaking to the Sudan Tribune by phone from Juba on Thursday.
He described detention of his client inside a military barrack as
"unconstitutional", adding denying his family from visiting him is a
“human rights violation".
Chol, however, said his client, Marial, was scheduled to appear before
court last Monday but the President of the Juba based Court for
Central Equatoria State, Malek Mathiang Malek, adjourned the hearing
until next Monday, 15th August, citing the need for more time to study
what he called "many sections and paragraphs" presented to him by the
defense lawyers.
Charges that led to arrest of the General reportedly included the following:
The disappearance of a man named John Luis in April 2011, following
reports that he was summoned to the office of the Chief Public
Security and Criminal Investigation, Department over a disputed plot
of land;
Accepting bribes for assets such as houses, shops, plots in return for
bribes in form of cash, shops at Konyokonyo market in Juba;
Permitting the arbitrary arrest of civilians in the illegally created
public security detention facilities and exhortation of money from
families of citizens;
Arming his tribesmen with guns to perpetuate tribal and sectional
disputes in Yirol West and Yirol East counties in Lakes state and
elsewhere; and;
The illegal incorporation of active Sudan People’s Liberation Army
(SPLA) officers and other ranks, who are not police personnel and who
have not obtained official release from their parent units, to join
any institutions including public security and criminal investigation
departments.
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