Ade Adesomoju, Abuja The Federal High Court in Abuja has declared the continued detention of a serving member of the National Youth Service Corps, Mr Christopher Adole, in the custody of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the police without charge since July this year as illegal. Delivering judgment on the fundamental human rights enforcement […] …
DSS brutality
DSS blindfolded, held me incommunicado for two years – Freed journalist
Simon Utebor, Yenagoa A journalist and publisher of Weekly Source, a local tabloid based in Bayelsa State, Mr Jones Abiri, on Tuesday, returned to Yenagoa, the state capital, and relived his ordeal in the hands of the Department for State Services. Abiri, who was received at the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists by […] …
Journalist detention: Falana files N200m suit against DSS
Ade Adesomoju, Abuja Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja on behalf of a journalist, Jones Abiri, who has been held in the custody of the Department of State Services for about two years without charge. The court papers obtained […] …