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JUBA - 24 Jan 2017

SPLA detains UN radio journalist briefly in Juba

SPLA soldiers at  Dr. John Garang Mausoleum have arrested a journalist working for the UN Radio Miraya and detained him for five hours before releasing him this evening.

Multiple sources told Radio Tamazuj that Henry Lokuri was assigned since morning to go and cover activities of Moroccan medical  teams that are running mobile clinics at Dr. John Garang Mausoleum.

The same sources said that the UN radio journalist was arrested and taken to SPLA military barracks in Al-Giyada where he was interrogated for five hours before being released around 4 pm.