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Country Report 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/south-sudan/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 13 July
2021] F3. IS THERE PROTECTION FROM THE ILLEGITIMATE
USE OF PHYSICAL FORCE AND FREEDOM FROM WAR AND INSURGENCIES? Physical
mistreatment and abuse are widespread within the criminal justice system.
Detainees often face torture or sexual assault in custody. Authorities also
conduct regular executions, including of people who were children when
convicted. At least nine people were executed in 2019. Government forces
raided at least 17 villages in Central Equatoria
during their January-to-April offensive. According to UNMISS, civilians were
murdered, homes torched, property looted, and schools and clinics ransacked. 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: South Sudan U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-sudan/
[accessed 13 July
2021] TORTURE AND OTHER
CRUEL, INHUMAN, OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT According to the UN
Security Council Panel of Experts and several independent human rights
advocates, the NSS Operations Division maintained a facility known as
“Riverside” where it detained, interrogated, and sometimes tortured
civilians. In addition the Panel of Experts reported that several detainees
died as a result of torture or from other conditions at the facility. The
Panel of Experts also alleged the existence of secret, unofficial detention
centers operated by the NSS. The Panel of Experts reported allegations of
torture, including electrical shocks, and beatings in these sites. There were numerous
additional reported abuses at NSS-run sites, including sexual and
gender-based violence, beating and torture of detainees, and harassment and
intimidation of human rights defenders and humanitarian workers. In July,
Peter Biar Ajak, a
prominent political activist and former detainee, claimed that detainees in
NSS facilities were subject to sexual abuse, including forced sodomy. PRISON AND DETENTION
CENTER CONDITIONS Some detention
centers were under the control of local tribal or state authorities, and
conditions were uniformly harsh and life threatening. Many facilities in
rural areas consisted of uncovered spaces where authorities chained detainees
to a wall, fence, or tree, often unsheltered from the sun. As with state-run
prisons, sanitary and medical facilities were poor or nonexistent, and
potable water was limited. Detainees sometimes spent days outdoors but slept
inside in areas that lacked adequate ventilation and lighting. Conditions in South
Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF)-run detention facilities were similar,
and in some cases worse, with many detainees held outdoors with poor access
to sanitary or medical facilities. ARREST PROCEDURES
AND TREATMENT OF DETAINEES ARBITRARY ARREST: Security forces
arbitrarily arrested opposition leaders, civil society activists,
businesspersons, journalists, and other civilians due to ethnicity or
possible affiliation with opposition forces. The SSPDF and NSS often abused
political opponents and others they detained without charge. South
Sudan 'torture' in shipping container prisons: Amnesty Agence France-Presse AFP, Nairobi, 27 May 2016 www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1425473/south-sudan-torture-shipping-container-prisons-amnesty [accessed 8 August
2016] Dozens of prisoners
in South Sudan are being held in conditions amounting to torture, crammed
into metal containers in baking heat with minimal water and food, Amnesty
International said Friday. Several prisoners,
mostly civilians accused of links to opposition or rebel groups but who have
not been charged, have died from the punishment, the rights group said.
Soldiers have also beaten the prisoners, Amnesty added. "Detainees are
suffering in appalling conditions and their overall treatment is nothing short
of torture," said Muthoni Wanyeki,
Amnesty International's chief in East Africa, adding that prisoners are
"fed only once or twice a week and given insufficient drinking
water." Human
Rights Watch World Report 2015 - Events of 2014 Human Rights Watch,
29 January 2015 www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/...
or
www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/wr2015_web.pdf [accessed 18 March
2015] SOUTH SUDAN ACCOUNTABILITY AND
JUSTICE
- South Sudan’s government has not provided accountability for abuses
committed by its forces, nor demonstrated the will to hold them to account.
The opposition has not, to Human Rights Watch’s knowledge, investigated or
punished any abusive forces. A presidential committee formed in January to
investigate killings and abuses has made no public update on its findings.
Many victims are reluctant to provide information to the committee because of
its lack of independence, and because there are no clear mechanisms for
victim and witness protection. S. Sudan rebels
accuse government of arrests, torture Sudan Tribune,
Kampala, 31 October 2014 www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article52906 [accessed 27 November
2014] “We have over 90
senior intellectuals and opinions leaders from Equatoria,
including chiefs who have been arrested for telling the truth and many have
been killed,” said Pierino Nathaniel Oyet. The rebel official also
alleged that about 80 tortures centres were
established in Juba allegedly to mistreats and abuse civilians unlawfully
arrested by security agents. “There are eight
torture centres around Juba and one is close to the
[Nile] river side. They are torturing and killing people there and throwing
them in to the Nile. We are all aware of what the government is doing as far
we are concern,” Oyet claimed. Human Rights
Overview Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org/africa/south-sudan [accessed 13 July
2021] Following the
signing of the 2018 peace deal and creation of a transitional government of
national unity in February 2020, violence reduced in most of the country.
Some armed groups persist with sporadic fighting and related abuses in parts
of Central Equatoria and cyclical intercommunal and
intersectional violence escalated--putting civilians at risk of injury and
death. Armed groups,
including armed youth groups, have restricted humanitarian access to populations
in need. The government has arbitrarily detained critics, civil society
members, journalists and politicians often holding them for extended periods.
No senior leaders have been held to account for conflict related abuses. Search … AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL For more
articles:: Search Amnesty
International’s website www.amnesty.org/en/search/?q=south+sudan+torture&ref=&year=&lang=en&adv=1&sort=relevance [accessed 14 January 2019] Scroll
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