Authorities in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State said the death row convict, who defiled and killed a five-year-old girl in the state has been transferred from Aweil to Wau Person.
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The fifth court session in the defamation case brought by the governor of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal against a civil society activist took place Thursday last week before being adjourned to 22 June by the presiding judge.
Activist Samuel Garang Dut at the court premises on May 20, 2021. [Photo: Radio Tamazuj]
The high court in Northern Bahr el Ghazal last week held a hearing in a defamation case brought by the state Governor against a local activist.
Governor Tong Akeen Ngor pressed defamation charges against activist Samuel Garang Dut after the latter posted a picture of a building located in the Hai Referendum residential area in Juba purportedly belonging to the state governor.
Dut was subsequently arrested by the police in Aweil on 9 April but released on bail a few days later pending court proceedings.
In the social media post, the activist criticized the governor for constructing and upgrading his private building using public funds while citizens went without services, a move authorities termed as defamation.