Nigeria, March 26 -- Amnesty International has condemned the arrest of two Kano journalists by the police on the order of the state government.

The police arrested Buhari Abba, an online publisher, and Ismail Auwal, a freelance journalist, over a report deemed critical to the state's Commissioner of Information, Ibrahim Waiya.

Amnesty International said the harassment and intimidation of the journalists must end and their safety guaranteed.

"Buhari Abba, an Online Editor with Kano Times, was invited by the Kano State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID) of the Kano Police Command, where he was detained for hours.

"All these bizarre acts of intimidation are connected to an opinion article published by Kano Times. P...