- Organisation: Juba Monitor newspaper
- Case: Detention
- Culprit: National Security Service (NSS)
- Country: South Sudan
- City: Juba
Twitter Facebook WhatsApp LinkedIn Email Telegram On October 16, 2020, agents of South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) arrested Bullen Alexander Bala, a reporter with the privately owned Juba Monitor newspaper, as he worked to report on student protests at the University of Juba, according to an Eye Radio report published on October 17 and an individual familiar with the arrest who spoke to CPJ on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. The agents covered Bala’s face and took him to the Riverside NSS facility in Juba where he was questioned, had his phone seized, and was threatened with undefined consequences if he spoke about his experience before being transferred to the nearby Malakia police station, according to the same anonymous individual and an Eye Radio report published on October 30.