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STORY: OHCHR / SOUTH SUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 01:51
SOURCE: OHCHR / UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 MAY 2025, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
FILE - GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations
23 MAY 2025, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
2. Wide shot, briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Seif Magango, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We are warning today of a real risk of further deterioration in the human rights situation in South Sudan. This follows a sharp increase in hostilities between the South Sudan people’s defence forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army - In Opposition and their allied fighters.”
4. Wide shot, briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Seif Magango, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“At least 75 civilians have been killed and 78 others injured since the latest hostilities broke out in February. Thousands have been displaced.”
6. Wide shot, briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Seif Magango, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“High Commissioner Volker Türk is urging all parties to urgently pull back from the brink and to uphold the 2018 peace agreement. He is also calling on all parties to protect civilians and civilian objects and to facilitate humanitarian access - in line with their obligations under international law.”
8. Wide shot, briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Seif Magango, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We are also concerned by the arbitrary detention of dozens of politicians linked to the SPLM-IO, among them the country’s first vice-president, ministers and members of parliament.”
10. Wide shot, briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Seif Magango, Spokesperson, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“All those arbitrarily detained must be immediately and unconditionally released. We appeal to the authorities to also take prompt, effective and meaningful steps to halt hate speech.”
12. Wide shot, briefing room
UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango today (23 May) warned of a further deterioration in the human rights situation in South Sudan at the bi-weekly briefing in Geneva.
“We are warning today of a real risk of further deterioration in the human rights situation in South Sudan. This follows a sharp increase in hostilities between the South Sudan people’s defence forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army - In Opposition,” he said.
“At least 75 civilians have been killed and 78 others injured since the latest hostilities broke out in February. Thousands have been displaced,” the spokesperson stated.
The latest fighting broke out following a series of armed attacks in Nasir County, in Upper Nile State in February that were attributed to the White Army militia group.
“High Commissioner Volker Türk is urging all parties to urgently pull back from the brink and to uphold the 2018 peace agreement. He is also calling on all parties to protect civilians and civilian objects and to facilitate humanitarian access - in line with their obligations under international law,” Magango said.
“We are also concerned by the arbitrary detention of dozens of politicians linked to the SPLM-IO, among them the country’s first vice-president, ministers and members of parliament,” he said.
At least 55 high-ranking government officials affiliated with the SPLM-IO were arrested across the country between the 5th and the 26th of March – many of them without arrest warrants or due process.
“All those arbitrarily detained must be immediately and unconditionally released.
We appeal to the authorities to also take prompt, effective and meaningful steps to halt hate speech,” he stated.
