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Morris Mabior arrest flouts international law on handling suspects globally

South Sudanese Refugee Moses Mabior Awijok. [Courtesy]

It has been 22 days since South Sudanese asylum-seeker Morris Mabior Awikjok was arbitrarily arrested in Nairobi and forcefully returned to South Sudan.

His forced disappearance, the first prominent case for the Kenya Kwanza administration, raises fundamental questions whether the government remains committed to protecting neighbours fleeing persecution.

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