Community Empowerment for Progress Organization or CEPO is calling for the release of Juba Monitor Editor-in-chief Alfred Taban on health and humanitarian grounds.
CEPO in a statement calls on South Sudan political authorities to release Taban because his health condition is critical.
‘Detention may affect his health. Forgiving Alfred Taban will be great and remarkable action if our state authorities did,’ CEPO Director Edmond Yakani stresses.
He adds that ‘we are pleading to our President His Excellency Salva Kiir to forgive Alfred Taban on his health condition.
The Director says ‘Alfred Taban has contributed a lot during our struggle for independence through his journalism role. Whatever mistake he did now, kindly he should be forgiven for it.’
Juba Monitor Editor-in-chief Alfred Taban was arrested on Saturday after calling on President Salva Kiir and first vice Riek Machar to step down.