Nigeria: Despite Court Order, Activist Still Held

Expand Omoyele Sowore, pro-democracy activist and founder of Sahara Reporters news agency. © 2016 Mohamed Nanabhay (via Wikimedia) (Abuja) – The Nigerian authorities are holding Omoleye Sowore, a former presidential candidate and democracy activist, in detention despite a November 6, 2019 bail order by an Abuja Federal High Court. The Department of State Security Services (DSS) should promptly release him. Security officials arrested Sowore, publisher of the New York-based Nigeria news website Sahara Reporters, in August, accusing him of planning an insurrection aimed at a forceful takeover…

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