Revolution Now: Fifty Civil Groups Petition UN, AU Over Sowore's Continued Detention - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 30, 2019
Fifty civil society groups,including the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights CDHR, Media RightsAgenda, MRA and Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, among others have written the United Nations, UN and the African Union, AU overthe continued detention of the organiser of #RevolutionNow protest, OmoyeleSowore, by the Federal Government.
The groups who demanded theimmediate release of Sowore, also decried his being kept in custody by thePresident Buhari administration amid a subsisting Court ruling ordering hisfreedom.
Sowore was arrested on August 3 thisyear by the Department of State Services, DSS for inciting Nigerians againstsome challenges in the polity.
An Abuja High Court had on September24 ordered the secret police to release the pro-democracycampaigner.
The human rights and press freedomorganisations are renewing their call on the two global and continental bodiesto fast-track the freedom of Sowore.