Dozens Imprisoned by South Sudan at Risk of Death, Amnesty Says

South Sudanese authorities are imprisoning dozens of people in badly ventilated shipping containers who are deprived of adequate food and water and subject to beatings by soldiers, Amnesty International said.

Most of the detainees at the site, about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) south of the capital, Juba, are civilians accused of having links to the former rebel group led by Vice President Riek Machar that fought in the country’s two-year civil war and is now part of the government, the London-based rights organization said in a statement.