An official says two journalists have been freed after being detained
without charges for more than a week by the nation’s secret police
following writing stories about a radical Islamist sect and alleged
military abuses.
Mohammed Garba, president of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, said
Tuesday that Musa Mohammed Awwal and AliyuSaleh, journalists with the
weekly Hausa language newspaper, Al-Mizan, were freed around noon. Garba
said the two men had not been abused or mistreated while in custody. He
said the two men may have to return for questioning again by State
Security Service.
The two journalists were arrested Dec. 24 at their homes in Kaduna.
Their newspaper has published a series of stories about alleged military
abuses and the sect known as Boko Haram.
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