Amnesty International (AI) says Nigerian authorities must protect people from violence and ensure full respect for freedom of expression, peaceful association before, during and after the elections. In a statement
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Govt must uphold human rights during, after elections – Amnesty International
Amnesty International has urged the federal government to protect people from violence and ensure full respect for freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association before, during and after the forthcoming general elections scheduled for February 16 and March 2, 2019.
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Amnesty: Boko Haram killed 60 after soldiers abandoned Rann
Amnesty International raises alarm over increasing attacks on journalists
Amnesty International (AIN) has said clampdown on the press, raids on media organisations and arbitrary arrests and detention of journalists, is preventing people from freely expressing themselves. It stated this during the launch of Press For Freedom, a campaign to support Freedom of Expression (FOE) in Nigeria, adding that in 2018, at least four journalists […]
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Amnesty launches press freedom campaign, says Nigeria becoming harder for journalists
Amnesty International (AI) has launched a campaign “to ensure the freedom of expression in the country”. While launching the campaign in Abuja on Thursday, AI also called on the federal
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Amnesty says 37 protesters killed in Sudan crackdown
Amnesty International said it has received “credible reports” that Sudanese security forces have shot dead 37 protesters in a crackdown on demonstrations roiling the country. Anti-government protests have rattled Sudan since Wednesday after the government tripled the price of a loaf of bread. The authorities say eight protesters have been killed in the unrest, while […]
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Army accuses Amnesty, others of crippling fight against insurgency
Army should be removing Amnesty International’s teeth with club – ex-Defence Minister
A former Minister of Defence, Gen. Godwin Abbe, on Sunday joined several Nigerians, including the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), in condemning the recent report of Amnesty International (AI) on uprisings in Nigeria.
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Poor Image: Amnesty International is not Nigeria’s problem
Today’s world is characterized by tyranny, dictatorship and impunity thereby justifying the ceaseless campaigns by Amnesty International (AI) for an end to abuses of human rights across the globe. In the last couple of years, Nigeria has been one of the countries to which AI has directed its searchlight, finding quite often a multiplicity of human rights abuses. For the period 2017 to 2018, Amnesty reported on insurgency attacks, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, and torture and other ill-treatment, which, in some cases, led to deaths in custody.
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Federal Government will take action after analysing Amnesty International’s report, says presidency
The presidency yesterday said the Federal Government would take necessary action after analysing the Amnesty International’s damning allegations against…
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