Shattered lives of young Kenyans jailed for 72 years in Juba

They will not celebrate Christmas. They have not rejoiced in Diwali for two years now. They have not revelled at their sons’ birthdays this year. They cannot and will not celebrate anything until they secure freedom for their beloved. PHOTO: STANDARD

“Can a woman’s tender care cease towards the child she bore?” says the anonymous author of John 21:16.

The Biblical exhortation on mothers’ interminable love for their children is marked out in tormented lives of four women whose children are jailed in South Sudan.