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JUST IN: Int'l Community express worries as Amnesty flays FG over treatment of journalists, IPOB members

Amnesty International last night released its new global human rights report from 159 countries around the world and bemoaned government response to legitimate security fears with gross human rights violations, which include torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.
In the report titled The State of the World’s Human Rights, Amnesty condemns how politicians wield “a toxic, dehumanising ‘us vs them’ rhetoric” to create a “more divided and dangerous world”.
“2016 was the year when the cynical use of ‘us vs them’ narratives of blame, hate and fear took on a global prominence to a level not seen since the 1930s. Across the world, and in Nigeria specifically, we witnessed governments responding to legitimate dissent with extreme measures that had devastating impacts on the civic space. 

“In south-east Nigeria, security forces led by the military, embarked on a chilling campaign of arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances. Many individuals are still being detained incommunicado while state security agents have killed at least 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters.”
“The past year has also seen a disturbing rise in arrests and intimidation of media professionals and activists in Nigeria. At least 10 journalists and bloggers were arrested in 2016, some for alleged connections to Boko Haram, in a crackdown that appears to have been orchestrated to suffocate freedom of expression.”
“In January, members of the Nigerian army raided the editorial offices of Premium Times and arrested journalists Dapo Olorunyomi and Evelyn Okakwu. They were subsequently released but the move sent a clear message to intimidate journalists and the media”, Isa Sanusi, Media Manager, Amnesty International Nigeria, said.
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