SSS officers 'brutalise journalists at #FreeSowore protest'
Nigeria, Nov. 12 -- Photos have emerged of Nigerian journalists brutalised by armed officers of the State Security Service during a protest in Abuja on Tuesday.
The journalists were covering a demonstration demanding the release Omoyele Sowore of Sahara Reporters by the SSS, which has kept Mr Sowore despite a court-ordered bail.
Mr Sowore is facing charges of treason, money laundering and defamation of President Muhammadu Buhari has been in detention since August 5 when he was arrested.
A federal judge signed a warrant for his release on November 6 after he met stringent bail conditions. But the SSS, Nigeria's domestic intelligence outfit that brought the charges, has continued to flout the court order, even after promising to honour i...
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