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South Sudan: The Dawn Newspaper’s Editor in Chief Emmanuel Monychol Akop detained for 47 days without any official charges…

The Dawn newspaper’s Editor in chief Emmanuel Monychol Akop who was abducted and taken into custody on the 28th of November 2024. Since then, there been no news and no justification for the abduction. Neither has there been any justification or reasons for it.

This just shows what the state does and how it goes after the ones who dares to write, speculate or even reveal the secrets of the state into his publication. If you don’t tow the line or act like the state wants it. Than you can become a problem and be criminalize.

The Editor in Chief of the Dawn, Emmanuel Monychol Akop have been in legal trouble before and captured by the state. That happened in 2019 and he was kept in prison for two weeks. Now in 2025 his now been behind bars for 47 days. This stint is even longer and there is no alleged criminal conspiracy or any case to be developed. There is no knowledge of criminal case, proceedings or even a trial in the court. Therefore, the editor is now detained for unknown and mysterious reasons.

This shows what J-1 and what the current leadership accepts as injustice towards their own citizens. They are accepting and allowing this to happen to him. They are allowing and nodding their heads, but meanwhile he has no remedy or ways to get out of this predicament.

It just a terrible situation and unfortunate. As the Editor in Chief of The Dawn shouldn’t have this problem for publishing and creating his content. It just shows that they are willing to take away his liberty and freedom. Neither is he free to write or to work as a professional journalist. He should just copy-and-paste whatever the State House and the current appointed leaders are saying. That is the truth here and the J-1 should see this. This is a bad reflection of the leaders that are currently in power in South Sudan. Peace.