Juba bans security forces from detaining suspects outside police stations
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Eyeradio
Juba’s caretaker mayor, Christopher Sarafino Wani Swaka, has banned security forces from holding suspects in neighbourhood security sectors and ordered them to transfer them to police stations. He issued the warning during an inspection in Nyakuron West, reminding officers that they could be held responsible if a detainee died in their custody, Eye Radio reports.
Juba’s caretaker mayor, Christopher Sarafino Wani Swaka, has banned security forces from detaining suspects in residential areas of the South Sudanese capital. He ordered them to transfer those arrested to police stations so they can be subject to legal procedures, Eye Radio reports.
The mayor issued the directive on Saturday 17 October during an inspection in Nyakuron West, a neighbourhood also known as Number Three. There, he found a young man sitting by the roadside alongside a soldier and asked why the suspect was being held in a security sector rather than taken to a police station for questioning.
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