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move because, he said, he was repeatedly beaten on his joints. He was taken afterwards
to the NSS riverside building in Juba town.
A Nuer journalist and one of his relatives, an unarmed soldier in civilian clothes, were
arrested at 2 p.m. on December 16 on the road by the presidency in the Amarat
neighborhood. Soldiers severely beat both men on the street and when the journalist
protested the soldiers burned his face with lit cigarettes. 99 The soldiers then took the two
men to the Buluk police station in a military pickup. In the Buluk police station the two
men were put detained in one of two large cells, each crowded with around 50 male Nuer,
all recently arrested. The detainees received food and some water, but not enough given
the extreme heat in the overcrowded room. The two men were released with around 70 of
the detainees on December 18 after they managed to persuade authorities that they were
all civilians.
Other detentions by Dinka security forces, who sometimes beat Nuer detainees after
ethnically profiling them, took place in the Nyakuron , Konyo Konyo and the Khor William
areas of Juba.
99 Human Rights Watch telephone interview, name withheld, Date, 2014 and on date, 2014, Juba, The victim still had a burn
scar on his face on the date of the interview.
45 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | AUGUST 2014