Sunday 30 December 2012

Re: [wanabidii] RE: [YP_Ke] WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THE ARRESTED EDITOR OF ALMIZAN NEWSPAPER AND A REPORTER

Jacob,
 
If I'm not mistaken, the country is Nigeria. I recall reading something about it in another magazine recently.
 
Courage
 


 
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Jacob Chumba <jkchumba@hotmail.com> wrote:
Yona,
        I have read the Press Release and it is not a nice story to read. However, one thing that is disturbing is that no where have I found the name of the country which country you are reporting about? If I am the only one who has  not found the name of this African country, please forgive.
CHUMBA
 

Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:57:10 +0300
Subject: [YP_Ke] WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THE ARRESTED EDITOR OF ALMIZAN NEWSPAPER AND A REPORTER
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Press Release

WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THE ARRESTED EDITOR OF ALMIZAN NEWSPAPER AND A REPORTER

In a clandestine operation by combine security operatives (SSS ARMY AND MOPOL) that took place in the early hours of Monday 24th December 2012, the Editor of Al-Mizan newspaper, Malam Musa Muhammad Awwal and a Reporter with the Newspaper, Malam Aliyu Saleh have been whisked away to an unknown destination.

The security operatives, so...me of whom were dressed in military uniforms clampdown on the house of Malam Aliyu Saleh located at Rigasa Kaduna, where they odered all the people in the compound including women and children to to lay flat on the ground despite the cold weather. Malam Aliyu was brutally beaten by the security operatives. They were carrying sophisticated weapons and detectors and they seized their cell phones after harrassing them.

They searched every nook and corner in the house without coming up with anything having not presented any search warrant to their victim.

They whisked away Malam Aliyu Saleh without any arrest warrant, and his wife and went to the house of Malam Musa located close to Makarfi road by Nnamdi Azikiwe way. There, the security operatives harrassed his wife and beat her up, his son was beaten despite his deteriorating health condition and they also took away cell phones and undisclosed amounts of money. They whisked away Malam Musa Awwal without any arrest warrant as well after thoroughly searching his house and his car.

The wife of Malam Aliyu was later dropped along Makarfi road while they did went away with the two journalists, Malam Musa Muhammad Awwal and Malam Aliyu Saleh in separate vehicles.

The wives and children of the affected journalist have confirmed the incident mentioning that the sophisticatedly armed security operatives numbered more than 40 in vehicles numbering more than ten including an amoured vehicle stationed in strategic locations around the area.

Meanwhile, all security points visited have refused to officially confirm the incident although some of the personnels confirmed knowledge of the incident asking for anonimity.

Although it is not clear why they have been arrested, however it might not be unconnected with the lead story of the current edition of the Al-Mizan Newspaper which revealed the attrocities of the Joint Task Force in Potiskum in which 84 persons have been abducted.
The way and manner those charged with managing insecurity in the troubled areas are operating is not encouraging at all because of the way and manner they highten tension and violate the civil rights of their victims.

On behalf of the I.M.Publications, publishers of Al-Mizan Newspaper, we hereby call for the immediate and unconditional release of our staff whose arrest has violated due proccess and their individual human rights.

We shall not relent in all efforts of making this issue publicized all over the world which will subsquently reveal the inadequacies of the security operatives. We hereby call on the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Guild of Editors, Press Union of the Islamic World, Human and Civil Rights groups as well as all concerned and well meaning personalities that believe in fairness and justice to humanity to outrightly denounce this atrocity perpetrated by security personnels in the name of providing security.

Signed

Ibrahim Musa
(Editor-in-chief, Al-Mizan Newspaper)
2348037023343
 
Picture 1&2 3 Malam Aiyu Saleh Senior Reporter of Almizan and his Bedroom, 4. Malam Musa Muhammad Awwal Editor of ALMIZAN  


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