A South Sudanese whistleblower who was\u00a0abducted in Kenya\u00a0in June and taken \u200bto South Sudan has been released \u200cafter nearly two months in detention, his family said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Athorbey Al-Gaddhaffy-Dit returned to Kenya’s capital \u200bNairobi on Saturday and is receiving \u200bmedical treatment after his health deteriorated in \u2060detention in the South Sudanese capital Juba, \u200bthe family said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Gaddhaffy-Dit, who \u200balso holds Kenyan citizenship, was seized by armed, masked men after leaving a casino on the outskirts \u200bof Nairobi in early June, according to \u200ba report filed to police by his wife at \u200cthe \u2060time that cited witness accounts.<\/p>\n
Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi said in June that Gaddhaffy-Dit had told him in April that he shared \u200binformation about \u200ballegations of \u2060high-level corruption in South Sudan.<\/p>\n
South Sudan\u2019s government spokesperson, Ateny Wek Ateny, \u200bdid not immediately respond to a \u200brequest \u2060for comment.<\/p>\n
South Sudan’s government has regularly dismissed accusations of systematic human rights abuses and \u2060widespread \u200bcorruption.<\/p>\n
Kenyan and South Sudanese officials \u200bsaid in June they were not aware of Al-Gaddhaffy-Dit’s \u200bdisappearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A South Sudanese whistleblower who was\u00a0abducted in Kenya\u00a0in June and taken \u200bto South Sudan has been released \u200cafter nearly two months in detention, his family said on Monday. Athorbey Al-Gaddhaffy-Dit returned to Kenya’s capital \u200bNairobi on Saturday and is receiving \u200bmedical treatment after his health deteriorated in \u2060detention in the South Sudanese capital Juba, \u200bthe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2362,33],"tags":[5388,111,116],"class_list":["post-21718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-featured","category-politics","tag-athorbey-al-gaddhaffy-dit","tag-kenya","tag-south-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21719,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21718\/revisions\/21719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}