{"id":4237,"date":"2025-04-15T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:39:27","slug":"wau-police-103-youths-involved-in-criminal-activities-transferred-to-juba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4237","title":{"rendered":"Wau Police: 103 Youths Involved in Criminal Activities Transferred to Juba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Wau: Al-Wadi Newspaper<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police in <strong>Western Bahr el Ghazal State<\/strong> have confirmed the <strong>forced transfer of 103 young men<\/strong> to the capital, Juba, on Monday, due to their alleged involvement in criminal activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the spokesperson of the Western Bahr el Ghazal State Police, the young men were said to pose a <strong>serious threat to the local community<\/strong>, having committed various crimes as part of gang groups operating within <strong>Wau town<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since last month, the state authorities launched a <strong>strict crackdown on gangs<\/strong> engaged in unlawful activities in the city. The campaign led to the arrest of several young men who were reportedly found <strong>braiding their hair and wearing baggy clothing<\/strong>\u2014a style the authorities associate with gang culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police reported that the suspects face allegations including <strong>terrorizing residents, theft, violent clashes, and the rape of underage girls<\/strong>, among other serious offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group has been <strong>forcibly relocated to Juba<\/strong> as part of a <strong>rehabilitation effort<\/strong> aimed at deterring further criminal behavior and reintegrating the youths into society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wau: Al-Wadi Newspaper The police in Western Bahr el Ghazal State have confirmed the forced transfer of 103 young men to the capital, Juba, on Monday, due to their alleged&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}