The case of a Nigerian journalist arrested for reporting on the government’s failure to prevent attacks on Christians was postponed because the trial was not scheduled for the scheduled trial.
Luka Binniyat, a journalist whose paintings were published through the anti-communist Epoch Times, will appear in court last week on charges of “cyberbullying” and complicity in cybercrime that were opposed to him last year. However, the U. S. -based persecution watchdog is not very close to the U. S. The U. S. Supreme Court, International Christian Concern, reports that the ruling on did not appear at trial.
Binniyat, a Catholic arrested in November, denied the charges.
The editor of The Epoch Times Africa, Doug Burton, attributed the journalist’s arrest to an October 29 article he wrote titled: “Police in Nigeria report massacres because ‘bad guys’ don’t make arrests.
The article is part of the newspaper’s policy of fatal persecution of predominantly Christian farming communities in the West African country, which human rights activists say has reached “genocidal levels” in recent years, with thousands killed.
Critics say the Binniyat case is a political maneuver against hounds through Nigerian officials in southern Kaduna, the ICC said.
Predominantly Christian farming communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, which includes the northern state of Kaduna, are targeted and targeted by radicalized Peuhl activists, ICC said in an earlier statement. Thousands of other people have been killed in recent years.
Nigeria’s government has refuted claims that violence in middle belt states is pure faith and says violence is a component of decades-long clashes between farmers and herders.
In his article, Binniyat rejected Kaduna’s internal security and internal affairs commissioner Samuel Aruwan’s characterization of an attack on Christian farmers in the state as a “clash. “
Earlier this month, the U. S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The US warned that devout freedom is deteriorating in Nigeria due to the spread of violence through non-state actors and “bad governance”.
“In recent years, violence through non-state actors has increased in most of Nigeria, and this violence has had devastating humanitarian and human rights consequences, adding, albeit limited, to faith-based violence and other violations of Nigerians’ rights to freedom of faith. or belief,” USCIRF said in a report on violence in Africa’s most populous country.
The USCIRF states that the State Department designates Nigeria as a country of specific fear for “participating in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of devout liberty. “
Countries subject to the State Department’s “CPC” designation face negative consequences, which add to crippling sanctions.
However, in the 14 years that the USCIRF has designated Nigeria as a CPC, the State Department has accepted its advice only once, in 2020, under the Trump administration.
Nigeria was removed from the CPC list through Biden’s management last year, prompting complaints from human rights teams and the USCIRF.
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