Cairo — The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), denounces arresting of three journalists including 2 from Uganda and one from South of Sudan, while they were in Juba "the capital of South Sudan" to make a video report about the events on last Saturday.

The National Security Authorities arrested three journalists, two from Uganda "Jastin Dralz and Hillary Afsegah", they work for the American agency "Frequency Story News" and the South of Sudan journalist Sunday David Tout and he works as a reporter for "Horryah", the local news agency after they were arrested on the background of their media-coverage, without obtaining permits and the approval cards required from the authorities.

It is worthy to be mentioned that the journalists tried to finish the required procedures to photography last Saturday but they had to wait until Monday after the weekend and in which the responsible bodies don't work to grant the permits, so the journalists had to start their report until the required permits until they are granted but they were arrested by the authorities as a result of that.

ANHRI said that "the authorities in the South of Sudan must change its policy in dealing with the media-outlets and granting them the required facilitations to perform their work and not to persist in restrictions and harassing them, in particularly, the relations of these authorities to the media-outlets that started to increase badly a day after days in the South of Sudan in the last period that raise our concerns regarding the continuation of the press and media freedom in deterioration in the Southern of Sudan.

ANHRI demands the South of Sudan to immediately release the journalists and grant them the required permits and providing safe climate to all the media-outlets in the territories of the South of Sudan and not making the bureaucratic procedures a tool to disturb the media and the press work