By No. 1 Citizen<\/p>\n
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Association for Media Development in South Sudan (ADMISS) has urged parliament\u2019s spokesperson to withdraw a recent statement threatening g journalists against reporting criticism of the head of state.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The spokesperson for the national parliament, Oliver Mori Benjamin had warned against reporting any criticisms of the head of state made by lawmakers.<\/p>\n Mori\u2019s warning follows a heated assembly debate on Monday, May 27th<\/sup> where a legislator criticized the endorsement of President Kiir’s candidacy at the Greater Equatoria SPLM Rally for the December elections when the country is facing serious economic crisis.<\/p>\n The MP argued that it wasn\u2019t shame for such a huge occasion to be staged while the country is contending with serious economic crisis and citizens are struggling to survive amid hardship.<\/p>\n Mori urged media houses to stop reporting MP’s critics or any statements made by lawmakers considered derogatory to the symbol of the country or the government authority, cautioning that any journalist who report \u2018will bear the consequences of his or her action\u201d<\/p>\n This warning has been strongly criticized by the Association for Media Development in South Sudan (ADMISS) and civil society organizations.<\/p>\n \u201cAMDISS considers Hon. Mori’s warning as a clear intimidation of journalists and media houses as well as a restriction to freedom of expression and civic space,\u201d partly read a statement issued by ADMISS on Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the spirit of promoting dialogue in South Sudan and creating space for journalists to do their work, AMDISS strongly urges Hon. Mori to withdraw his warning and refrain from using rude words against the media,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n The Centre for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) also condemned Mori\u2019s statements.<\/p>\n \u201cThis bill outlines the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals and groups, which must be respected, upheld, and promoted by all government bodies and agencies, as well as by all individuals within the country,\u201d it noted in a statement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By No. 1 Citizen Association for Media Development in South Sudan (ADMISS) has urged parliament\u2019s spokesperson to withdraw a recent statement threatening g journalists against reporting criticism of the head of state. The spokesperson for the national parliament, Oliver Mori Benjamin had warned against reporting any criticisms of the[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Journalists-during-coverage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25261,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25259\/revisions\/25261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}