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Global quality rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), has condemned the reported usage of unit and wide arrests during ongoing protests successful Abuja connected Monday demanding the merchandise of detained person of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
In a connection posted connected its authoritative Facebook leafage connected Monday, Amnesty International Nigeria said it had received “disturbing reports of attempts to crackdown connected peaceful protests holding successful Abuja,” urging authorities to instantly merchandise those arrested.
“Those arrested indispensable beryllium released immediately. People indispensable beryllium allowed to freely workout their close to peaceful protest. Any enactment susceptible of undermining state of assembly is amerciable and portrays unacceptable intolerance of peaceful dissent,” the organisation stated.
Amnesty International besides called connected Nigerian authorities to guarantee that information agencies respect and facilitate the close to peaceful protestation arsenic guaranteed nether some nationalist and planetary laws.
“The Nigerian authorities indispensable guarantee that information agencies respect and facilitate the close to peaceful protest, arsenic guaranteed by some the country’s ain constitution and quality rights treaties, including the African Charter connected Human and Peoples’ Rights and the International Covenant connected Civil and Political Rights to which Nigeria is simply a authorities party,” the radical added.
The organisation further urged the authorities to show genuine committedness to upholding law and planetary quality rights obligations, including freedoms of expression, assembly, and association.
“Authorities indispensable amusement a committedness to upholding the country’s law and planetary quality rights obligations by allowing radical to freely workout their quality rights,” it said.
LEADERSHIP reports that Monday’s protests turned chaotic earlier successful the time erstwhile constabulary fired teardrop state to disperse crowds of commuters and demonstrators astir cardinal intersections.
The Nigeria Police Force had connected Saturday warned that immoderate protestation violating the court’s directive would beryllium deemed unlawful, cautioning organisers against allowing “hijackers” to exploit the situation.
Kanu, person of the secessionist IPOB movement, has been successful the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) since his re-arrest successful 2021 and connected proceedings for alleged terrorism ever since.
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