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Pressure mounts on Kiir to pardon detained activist

South Sudan advocacy group, the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA), on Wednesday called on President Salva Kiir Mayardit to pardon and release human rights activist Mr. Morris Mabior Awikjok.

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Activist and government critic Morris Mabior Awikjok. [Photo courtesy]
Activist and government critic Morris Mabior Awikjok. [Photo courtesy]
JUBA, FEBRUARY 15th 2023 (SUDANS POST) – South Sudan advocacy group, the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA), on Wednesday called on President Salva Kiir Mayardit to pardon and release human rights activist Mr. Morris Mabior Awikjok.

The group said Morris Mabior should be granted pardon like 36 inmates on death row who were recently forgiven by the President.

“Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) says President Salva Kiir just ordered the release of 36 imamates; this is a sense of forgiveness and a pure heart for humanity,” read parts of a statement seen by Sudans Post on Wednesday.

“This spirit should also apply to Morris Mabior Awikjok to be forgiven by the state. Every person is innocent until proven guilty,” it said.

The group said the recent visit of Holiness Pope Francis should be seen as touching forgiveness regardless of the amount of the crime committed by an individual

“Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to the law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.”

Morris was arrested along Kangundo road at his home in Kenya on Saturday, February 4, by individuals his wife, Angelina Aliet, claimed to be police officers from Kenya.

Aliet alleged the armed individuals ransacked their house, confiscated their phones and laptops, and handcuffed her husband.

Morris was seeking asylum in Kenya after fallout with government officials in South Sudan and had since lived in Kenya for two years.

He has been vigilant about matters of governance, corruption, and leadership he believed had caused his people harm.

A source in Juba claimed Mabior was extradited from Kenya and handed over to National Security Service who put him behind bars at Blue House.

On February 6th, 2023 the Dawn Daily Newspaper – which was identified by a US-based watchdog, The Sentry, earlier this year as a NSS outlet – wrote in a story that “Facebook Activist Morris Mabior Awikjok extradited to Juba to face charges.”

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