Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterparts in South Sudan and Kenya on the detention of human rights activists Dong Samuel Luak and Aggrey Ezbon Idri.

The UK Government remains concerned about the disappearance of Dong Samuel and Ezbon Idri following their abduction in Nairobi in 2017, reportedly by the South Sudanese authorities. Their disappearance is part of a deeply troubling pattern of harassment and intimidation of civic actors in South Sudan, and the repression of freedom of expression by the authorities. The British Government continues to press the Government of South Sudan for the release of all political prisoners in accordance with the 12 September peace agreement. The Government of South Sudan's failure to comply with this provision of the agreement calls into question their commitment to achieving a meaningful peace.