Global rights group, Amnesty International, has slammed the Federal Government for arresting Nastura Sharif, a man who organised a series of protests against the regime of the President, Maj.
Gen Muhammadu Buhari .that the government must immediately release Sharif who is the chairman of the board of trustees of the Coalition of Northern Groups.
“He was simply asking the authorities to do their job. His arrest appears to be an attempt to intimidate and harass both him and others peacefully exercising freedom of assembly and expression. Protest is not a crime, it is a right. Subjecting activists to such arbitrary arrest is a violation of Nigerian and international human rights laws.
He explained that after the protests, the Katsina State Commissioner of Police, Sanusi Buba, invited leaders of the group for an interactive session. The statement read in part, “The commissioner handed us to a team of policemen, headed by the officer in charge, Force Intelligence Bureau, who led us to Abuja. We drove from Katsina to Abuja with the police team in a white bus and a hilux.
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