Juba — South Sudan’s nationwide safety carrier has detained six reporters who paintings for the rustic’s nationwide broadcaster, SSBC, the rustic’s press union stated.

Patrick Oyet, who heads the Union of Journalists of South Sudan, stated 5 reporters had been detained Tuesday and one on Wednesday.

The arrest seems to be attached to a video of President Salva Kiir, in step with Oyet and media rights teams.

The photos, shared extensively on social media in December, gave the impression to display Kiir urinate on himself whilst at an authentic engagement, in step with The Associated Press. The video briefly cuts clear of the photographs of the 71-year-old president, the AP reported.

Local station Radio Tamazuj cited an nameless journalist from the SSBC as pronouncing that the photos got here from the general public broadcaster, “yet we as SSBC did not broadcast any news related to that video.”

Oyet stated the union is looking for main points on why the reporters had been taken by means of safety forces.

“We have visited some offices of the security and we found out that one of the reasons is actually connected to the … video of the president that was leaked,” Oyet stated.

From the tips he has to this point, Oyet stated, “They are basically suspects and they are being investigated. If they are found to not have been the people who sent out the video, they will be set free.”

Michael Makuei Lueth, South Sudan’s Information Minister, stated other folks will have to wait to listen to the cause of why the media staff are being held.

VOA’s makes an attempt to achieve Elijah Alier Kuai, managing director for the South Sudan Media Authority, which regulates the paintings of reporters, by means of telephone had been unsuccessful.

The unnamed SSBC journalist was once cited in reviews as pronouncing that their colleagues “are not arrested but just taken for formalities of investigations.”