Just in the midst of South Sudan fourth independence anniversary, two journalists experienced arrest, harassment, detention and release without charge, vowing to continue the job with fair balancing ethic without quitting.
Citizen Television or CTV Station Manager Reech Malual and Juba Monitor Newspaper Senior Correspondent Lagu Joseph Jackson say 777 Police van scooped them to one hour detention in Juba Northern Police Station on Sunday.
CTV Manager Malual says despite the arrest, harassment and detention, he will continue to follow and report the truth amidst all sorts of threats.
Juba Monitor Correspondent Joseph says he feels bad about being arrested and detained for no reason when they were just covering events of Warrap State governance affairs in relation to civil society dispute over Governor Nyandeng Malek’s tenure extension.
The two journalists say they were arrested amidst confusion as Warrap civil society members express divergent views on their political affairs, demanding them to cover one side against the other as opposed to journalistic ethics.