Peter Biar Ajak, a Ph.D. student who was critical of his country’s government was arrested in July 2018 in South Sudan. He was sentenced to two years in prison. Mr. Ajak was one of the country’s “Lost Boys” who was resettled in America and had studied at Lasalle University in Philadelphia, then Harvard and then Cambridge. He returned to Sudan in July 2018 to participate in a youth conference ... Continue Reading>>
Harvard Educated Economist Re-Arrested and Sentenced to Two Years in Prison in South Sudan For Interviewing with the Voice of America
Peter Ajak, an economist and political activist, was falsely arrested in July 2018 for treason and detained for eight months after which time the charges were dropped and he was released. He was immediately re-arrested and charged with inciting public violence while in prison for giving an interview to the Voice of America in an effort to quell a prison riot. He was sentenced to two years in ... Continue Reading>>
Student and Community Activist Arrested in South Sudan
Peter Biar Ajak, the first citizen from South Sudan to study at Cambridge, was arrested on July 28th at the Juba airport and detained. Ajak is a Harvard educated economist, a Trinity College, Cambridge University Ph.D. student, an alumnus of the Atlantic Council Millennium Fellowship, a Cambridge Trust scholar. He is a former World Bank economist and currently a senior advisor at the ... Continue Reading>>