On the 40th anniversary of the Day of the Imprisoned Writer, a sign-on petition to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is calling for his help to free a Nigerian contributor to The Epoch Times. That day the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission is also holding an event to call attention to the arrest of journalists. Luka Binniyat was arrested Nov. 4 in Kaduna, Nigeria and charged with “cyberstalking,” under a statute derided by critics as intended to silence opposition journalists. Binniyat, 52, was charged Nov. 9 in a Kaduna Magistrate’s court of “cyberstalking” Commissioner of Internal State Security Samuel Aruwan for a report in The Epoch Times revealing that no arrests or prosecutions have ensued a month after a massacre of unarmed Christians in a Southern Kaduna village on Sept. 26. Cyberstalking is defined in Nigerian law as “the act of threatening, harassing, or annoying someone through multiple email messages, …
Rights Activists Petition Blinken to Help Free Nigerian Reporter
November 14, 2021
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AfricaAnthony BlinkenLuka BinniyatNigeriaSave the Persecuted ChristiansTom Lantos Human Rights CommissionWorld
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