South Sudan: Security law ‘automatically’ in force

South Sudan’s controversial security bill allowing people to be arrested without warrants has become law even though the president has not signed it, the parliament’s spokesman said Thursday.

Spokesman Oliver Mori told The Associated Press that the bill became law “automatically” under the constitution, after a 30-day delay since it was presented to President Salva Kiir on July 12.

The latter neither signed nor vetoed the law, which drew…