FILE: South Sudan president pardons prominent economist South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has pardoned Harvard-educated economist, Peter Biar Ajak, whose conviction earlier this year on spying charges drew international criticism. Biar was among 30 prisoners on a pardon list seen by AFP and dated January 1. A spokesman for the main prison in the capital Juba, where Biar was being held, said Friday that he would be released soon. FILE IMAGES of Peter Biar Ajak