(RSF/IFEX) – On 29 June 2006, the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the release on bail of Rotimi Durojaiye, aeronautics correspondent of the privately-owned “Daily Independent”, and of Mike Gbenga Aruleba, presenter of a political programme on privately-owned Africa Independent Television (AIT). The trial of the two journalists on a charge of “sedition” under […]
(RSF/IFEX) – On 29 June 2006, the Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the release on bail of Rotimi Durojaiye, aeronautics correspondent of the privately-owned “Daily Independent”, and of Mike Gbenga Aruleba, presenter of a political programme on privately-owned Africa Independent Television (AIT).
The trial of the two journalists on a charge of “sedition” under a law which several Nigerian jurists have called a “dead-letter” since 1983, has been fixed for 27 July.
“We repeat our demand for the dropping of this case, which is not only illegal but groundless,” said Reporters Without Borders.
