The
Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, has requested for the release of
the two journalists who were abducted since Monday 24th of December
2012. They are still in detention for morethan 48 hours after their
arrest at their homes in Rigasa, Kaduna by security operatives.
The Premium Times reports that the CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator, Mohamed Keita, from New York as saying:
“We
condemn the arrests of Aliyu Saleh and Musa Muhammad Awwal, along with
the raid at Ibrahim Musa’s home, which appear designed to silence
coverage of alleged abuses by Nigeria’s security agencies,”
He
further said “We demand the immediate release of these journalists and a
halt to the security agencies’ efforts to intimidate the press.
National leaders must make it clear that security agents are not above
the law.”
Musa
Muhammad Auwal, the editor of Almizan News paper and Aliyu Saleh, a
reporter with the same paper where bitterly molested including their
family members, before their arrest, by the armed security agents
numbering more than 20, and taken to an undisclosed location. The
Journalists’ laptops, phones and money were also confiscated.
CPJ
made the demand Wednesday in statement sent to media houses after the
elapsed of 48 hours in detention. The reason for the arrest was still
unclear.
However,
it is believed that their arrest can not be unconnected to a report in
the latest edition of Almizan newspaper which exposed the atrocities of
Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe state. The JTF has abducted 84
individuals. The whereabouts of these individuals were yet unknown. The
paper also carried pictures of some individuals who were still missing.
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