Military Raids Newspaper Offices, Arrests Journalists For Boko Haram Coverage
January 08 2019
Nigerian security forces raided the offices of the Daily Trust newspaper over its coverage of the Boko Haram militant group, reports Al Jazeera (Qatar).
On Sunday, a team of secret police, soldiers and civil defense paramilitaries stormed the newspaper’s offices in Maiduguri and Abuja, the Nigerian newspaper said.
Security forces arrested a reporter and regional bureau chief in Maiduguri and seized laptops and mobile phones from all of the offices. The paper and the families of the...
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