Two members of the Warrap State parliament have been released from prison after being detained earlier last week.

MP Amet Kuol was arrested with Ariech Mayar Ariech, chairman of the information committee in the state assembly, by government operatives allegedly acting on the directives of the state governor Nyandeng Malek.

Warrap state assembly speaker Moses Madot told Radio Tamazuj that the two MPs have been released after investigations. He said the lawmakers denied all accusations levelled against them during the investigations.

Governor Nyandeng Malek, in a letter to security services ordering the arrests, accused the two legislators of organizing a demonstration by residents of Malek Gummel in Kuacjok town over worsening humanitarian conditions.

The governor also alleged that the two lawmakers engineered a strike by students at Kuacjok's secondary school. However, a student denied that they had gone on strike, saying they had only sent a letter to the ministry of education expressing their grievances.

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