The Governor of the Western Bahr El Ghazal State has described the report released by Amnesty International as biased.
Rizik Zachariah Hassan told the press on Friday in Juba that Amnesty report was partial because it handled one part and left the original root causes of the demonstrations.He denied that state government was taking upper hand in detaining people since December last year.
Governor Hassan said peaceful demonstration should be legally permitted by government authorities calling on the Amnesty to produce a document to verify its report.
He said in any demonstration, the government should be informed so that it secures and protects the demonstrators, but the government was not told.
Governor Hassan refuted Amnesty’s claim that demonstrators were going to present their grievances to the UNMISS office adding the demonstration took place on Sunday where no office was functioning.
He urged the Amnesty to produce the copy of the grievance letter written by the demonstrators that was to be handed to UNMISS.
Amnesty International report released on Wednesday accused Western Bahr El Ghazal of detaining 100 people including opposition figures, civil society activists, journalists and security officers since the violence.