Freedom House condemns the arrest and calls for the immediate release of Louis Pasquale, director-general of the state broadcasting service in Western Bahr el Ghazal state of South Sudan, and director of state television, Ashab Khamis.
Freedom House welcomes South Sudan’s signing of the Geneva Conventions and their additional Protocols. With the addition of South Sudan, the Geneva Conventions now apply to every country in the world, an extremely important milestone for human rights worldwide.
Freedom House is deeply concerned about the recent abduction and beating of Mr. Deng Athuai, chairman of the South Sudan Civil Society Alliance, which came only days prior to the country’s first anniversary of independence.
Freedom House provides support to civil society to bolster their capacity to advocate more vigorously for democratic reforms and to be more effective in engagement with the Government of South Sudan.