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October 25, 2011 (JUBA) - Marial Nuor, South Sudan’s former director of public security and criminal investigation, on Friday said he has been released after spending 81 days in detention.
Nuor was arrested in July following reports alleging his involvement in torture, bribery and the creation of illegal detention centres. In an interview with Sudan Tribune on Friday Nuor denied all wrong-doing and accused individuals he did not name, of conspiring against him by orchestrating his arrest and subsequent removal from post.
“Yes I am released. Actually there was no case against me. It was just individuals who were trying to confuse the situation, to mislead the public in order to cover up their own mess, especially crimes they have committed in the darkness,” said Nuor in his Juba residence.
Nuor claimed that someone he did not want to name confronted him and told him prior to his arrest that he was going to be punished, because he was implementing government policies which impacted upon certain illicit deals.
President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, told the nation, in a speech on martyrs’ day in July, that he had ordered the arrest of some senior officers involved in the torture and mistreatment of citizens. “There are serious and humiliating incidents which occurred. There are now some of the senior officers under arrest. I have ordered them to be arrested and they will remain under arrest until they are investigated thoroughly,” said Kiir.
Nuor said the president was misled about the charges brought against him and his colleagues, which were “mere fabrications without evidence.”
In July, Acuil Tito Madut, inspector of general of the South Sudan police service, named Nuor one of the senior officers arrested on the orders of the president for charges including:
- The disappearance of John Luis in April 2011, following reports that he was summoned to the office of the Chief Public Security and Criminal Investigation Department over a disputed plot of land.
- Accepting bribes for assets such as houses, shops, plots in return for bribes in form of cash, shops in Konyokonyo.
- Permitting the arbitrary arrest of civilians in illegally created public security detention facilities and extortion of money from families of citizens.
- Arming his tribesmen with guns to perpetuate tribal and sectional disputes in Yirol West and East counties in Lakes State and elsewhere
- The illegal incorporation of active Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) officers and other ranks, who are not police personnel and who have not obtained official release from their parent units, to join any institutions including public security and criminal investigation departments.
“The transitional constitution of South Sudan is very clear. It has defined the powers of all government institutions including security personnel,” Tito told journalists in July in reference to allegations that Nuor was involved in the illegal transfer of SPLA officers and other ranks into the Public Security and Criminal Investigation Department, without seeking approval of the president.
Kiir Chol, Nuor’s lawyer at the time protested the arrest and described it as illegal and unconstitutional. He claimed that Nuor was imprisoned in a military barracks and was denied family visit. He protested against Nuor’s detention and presented his legal observations to the high court, requesting a transfer to public detention centre where his family members were able to visit him.
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