Six journalists in South Sudan have been detained over the circulation of footage displaying President Salva Kiir showing to moist himself at an official occasion, the nationwide journalists union mentioned on Saturday.
The footage from December confirmed a darkish stain unfold down the 71-year-old president’s grey trousers as he stood for the nationwide anthem at a street commissioning occasion. The video by no means aired on tv however subsequently circulated on social media.
The journalists, who work with the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, had been detained on Tuesday and Wednesday, mentioned Patrick Oyet, president of the South Sudan Union of Journalists.
They “are suspected of having knowledge on how the video of the president urinating himself came out,” he advised Reuters.
South Sudan Information Minister Michael Makuei and National Security Service spokesperson David Kumuri didn’t instantly reply to…
2023-01-07 21:10:32 South Sudan President Salva Kiir: Six journalists detained over footage displaying chief seemingly wetting himself
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