National Security officers are keeping ten journalists without charges in Juba for the last six days.
The detained journalists were part of a group of 13 taken by security personnel from South Sudan Television and Radio premises on Friday morning.The journalists were on strike since Wednesday to protest for 2009 unpaid housing allowances.
Earlier in the week three female journalists were released: two were mothers and the third got sick.
AIM executive director, David de Dau, told SCR News over the phone that he was in dialogue with the authorities at National Security and GoSS Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to secure the release of the ten journalists.