Amnesty alleges escalating crackdown on govt critics in Kano, cites many DSS arrests

Amnesty International Nigeria has raised the alarm implicit what it described arsenic an “escalating signifier of repression” successful Kano State, alleging that individuals who knock Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf are being subjected to arrest, detention and intimidation.

In a connection posted connected its authoritative Facebook leafage connected Tuesday morning, the quality rights enactment said it is “deeply acrophobic by the disturbing patterns of arrest, detention and harassment of persons simply for criticizing oregon making dissenting commentary” astir the governor.

The radical alleged that successful astir of the documented cases, those targeted were either arrested oregon “invited” by the Department of State Services (DSS).

“This rising tide of repression is progressively creating a toxic clime of fearfulness and endangering people’s close to state of expression,” Amnesty International stated.

Amnesty cited respective caller incidents it described arsenic grounds of maltreatment of powerfulness and manipulation of instrumentality enforcement to suppress civic abstraction successful Kano.

According to the organization, Abba Ibrahim Hussain, a instrumentality pupil astatine Northwest University, was allegedly abducted from his residence successful Kano by equipped DSS unit connected Sunday for criticizing the governor.

He remains successful detention and risks missing ongoing examinations.

The rights radical besides referenced the lawsuit of Aminu Warkal, described as...