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August 23, 2019
Omoyele Sowore of Sahara Reporters, AAC Presidential Candidate
Omoyele Sowore of Sahara Reporters, AAC Presidential Candidate

RevolutionNow: 48 CSOs Seek Global Intervention on Arbitrary detention of Sowore

Forty-eight international and Nigerian human rights and press freedom organisations have filed an urgent appeal to the United Nations and African Union Special Mechanisms calling for their intervention in the arbitrary arrest and detention of Nigerian journalist and human rights defender Mr Omoyele Sowore.

Mr Sowore is a prominent journalist, human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner. He is the founder of Sahara Reporters, an online news agency based in New York City that focuses on corruption, human rights abuses and other political misconduct in Nigeria. He was arrested on 3 August 2019, following his call for a peaceful protest using the hashtag #RevolutionNow. The objective of the protest was to demand that the Nigerian government end corruption and economic inequality and guarantee education to all.

Following his arrest, Mr Sowore was initially denied access to his lawyers and he is yet to be arraigned before a competent court. No charges have been filed, but the Federal Court has granted a request from the Nigerian State Security Service to detain Mr Sowore for 45 days to conduct investigations under the 2013 Terrorism Act. Efforts by Mr Sowore’s legal team in Nigeria, led by Mr Femi Falana (SAN), to petition his release have been unsuccessful thus far.

The 48 organisations who filed the Urgent Appeal argue that Mr Sowore’s treatment constitutes a violation of his right not to be arbitrarily detained, right to a fair trial, right to freedom of expression, right of freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and his rights as a human rights defender. The organisations, assisted by Ms Nani Jansen Reventlow from the London-based internationally renowned law firm, Doughty Street Chambers, are calling upon the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, UN Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, the situation of human rights defenders, and African Commission Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression and human rights defenders to:

· intervene urgently to secure the immediate release of Mr Sowore; and
· declare his arrest and continuing detention a gross violation of his human rights.

“The arrest and detention of Sahara Reporter’s founder, Omoyele Sowore, is without doubt a threat to press freedom and investigative journalism in Nigeria,” said La Keisha Landrum Pierre, COO of Sahara Reporters. “Sowore has used the word ‘revolution’ contextually to mean ‘change for the better’ since he founded Sahara Reporters in 2006. He then stated that he would “revolutionise” the way news is being reported: something he actually did by leading the pioneering efforts in citizen journalism in Nigeria. We are shocked that a government that rode to power on the promise to wipe out corruption and be the ‘voice of the voiceless’ is trying to silence the call for change by the same people who elected it.”

Joy Hyvarinen, head of advocacy at Index on Censorship said: “Index on Censorship urges the Nigerian authorities to release the prominent journalist and campaigner Omoyele Sowore immediately. The arrest and detention are a shocking violation of Mr Sowore’s human rights, which calls into question Nigeria’s willingness and ability to meet international human rights obligations.”

1. All Workers’ Convergence (AWC)

2. Afrika Movement for Freedom and Justice (AMFJ), Agege

3. Women Agenda (AWA)

4. ARTICLE 19 Senegal/West Africa

5. Chidi Odinkalu (Open Society Justice Initiative

6. Centre for Constitutional Rights

7. Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ)

8. Coalition for Revolution (CORE)

9. Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR)

10. Community Women Initiatives (CWI)

11. The Concerned Forum

12. Congress of Progressive Youths (COPY)

13. Democratic Youth League

14. Edo State Civil Society Organisation (EDOSCO)

15. Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria

16. Freedom of Expression Hub

17. Gani Fawehinmi Apostles

18. Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Organization (gafam.org)

19. Governance Advancement Initiative for Nigeria (GAIN)

20. Global Voice Sub-Saharan Africa

21. Grassroot Justice Centre

22. Human and Environment Development Agenda (HEDA)

23. Human Rights Network for Journalists-Uganda (HRNJ-UGANDA)

24. IAmVocal

25. Index on Censorship

26. Media Legal Defence Initiative

27. Media Rights Agenda

28. People’s Alternative Front (PAF)

29. Moshood Abiola Vanguard for Democracy (MAVD)

30. Movement For People’s Rights

31. National Conscience Party (NCP), Lagos State Branch

32. Nigerians in Diaspora Europe, Belgium-Luxembourg (NIDOE-BeLux)

33. Open Society for West Africa (OSIWA) Nigeria Office

34. Paradigm Initiative

35. People’s Alternative Front (PAF)

36. Peoples’ Unite, Rivers State Civil Society Coalition (RIVSCO)

37. Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre (RULAAC)

38. Save Lagos Group

39. Socialist Vanguard Tendency (SVT)

40. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP)

41. Sovereign Vital Force

42. Spaces for Change

43. Take-It-Back (TiB) Movement

44. Talakawa Parliament

45. Veteran Group for Operation Clean Crusade (VGOCC)

46. Women for Leadership Change

47. Workbond International Network (WIN)

48. Youth In Good Governance Initiative (YIGGI).

For further information, please contact:

Idowu Adewale
Comminication Officer
[email protected]

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