Niger: Six Month-Long Arbitrary Detention of Human Rights Defender Moussa Tiangari Must End

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Moussa Tiangari, Niamey, Niger, June 2024. © 2024 Amnesty International (Nairobi) – Niger’s authorities should immediately release civil society activist and human rights defender Moussa Tiangari and stop using terrorism-related charges to silence dissent, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), in the framework of the Observatory for the protection of human rights defenders, said today.On December 3, 2024, men claiming to be policemen arrested Tiangari…

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