2 more students deported from Egypt with ‘alarming’ health conditions

JUBA – At least two more South Sudanese students have on Friday been deported from Egypt by authorities on orders of the South Sudan embassy in Cairo, with students reporting alarming health conditions developed while in detention in Egypt.

Wujum Muon Gatwech, a student of medicine at Ain Shams University, and Ring Monydhar Ariik, a student of petroleum engineering at Suez Canal University, were deported on Friday afternoon aboard an EgyptAir plane, according to the team leader Bech Marial who was deported a week earlier.

“This is to let the public know that another batch of students has been deported today from Egypt by our embassy there,” Bech told Sudans Post in Juba. “They have been deported with alarming body health conditions and all their properties including phones, watches and money have been looted.”

Bech, a medical student at Tanta University before deportation, said they are expecting the last batch to be deported to South Sudan from Egypt on Monday.

“We are expecting the last batch of the students who are being detained to be deported on Monday. This will bring the total number of the students deported since we were brought to our country to ten,” he said.

In late September, hundreds of South Sudanese students stormed the Cairo embassy after a promise for a fully-funded scholarship was dishonored.

The students stormed the embassy to demand intervention of the South Sudan diplomatic mission in their argument with university, but Egyptian police later on stormed the embassy on the request of the head of mission wounding 9 students and detaining at least 10.

The ten students are the one being deported. The deportation will be completed on Monday as eight students in total have already been detained.