The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on the Federal Government to immediately release activist and journalist Omoyele Sowore and withdraw all criminal defamation and cybercrime charges against him following his remand by a Federal High Court in Abuja.
Justice Mohammed Umar on Monday ordered Sowore’s remandSowore’s remand at the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of his application seeking a stay of execution of an earlier order revoking his bail. The judge also dismissed an application seeking his recusal from the case over alleged bias.
Reacting to the development, SERAP on Monday, in a statement signed by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, said Sowore was being detained solely for peacefully exercising his fundamental rights.
“We are concerned about the escalating crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, association and media freedom and the flagrant disregard for the rule of law by Nigerian authorities,” the organisation
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