Nine detainees arrested during Wau’s deadly protests in December are on hunger strike demanding a meeting with the state attorney general.
The detainees claimed that they were denied access to their defence lawyers and their files were never presented to the court.A source in Wau Central Prison who spoke under anonymity told Voice of Hope on Tuesday morning that nine detainees have declared to the prison authorities that they were going to stay 48 hours without food until the attorney general met them.
The detainees include Sebit Baptist Francis, former minister of information, Luka Anthony Ubur, ex-Commissioner of Wau County, and seven members of Western Bahr El Ghazal parliament.
Some of the detainees some have already spend four month in detention.
Michael Butuku, director of Wau Central Prison, told Voice of Hope over the phone that he was not aware of the hunger strike.