By AFPMore by this AuthorA South Sudanese activist is being held in Kenya and is facing deportation to his home country where he has received death threats and could be arrested, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Prominent lawyer Dong Samuel Luak, who fled to Kenya in August 2013 after receiving death threats for defending a high-ranking politician accused of treason, was detained on Monday according to the US-based rights body. HRW said Luak had been denied access to legal counsel and was subject to a deportation order. "Dong Samuel Luak has been a vocal advocate for human rights in South Sudan for many years, and could face serious mistreatment if returned to South Sudan," said Leslie Lefkow, HRW's deputy Africa director, in a statement. The rights group said Luak — who has publicly criticised human rights abuses and corruption by South Sudanese government officials — was brutally attacked at his home in Nairobi in October 2015.

Source: Daily Nation January 25, 2017 10:01 UTC