In a tweet yesterday, the global organisation said since March 30, no information had been disclosed by the Nigerian government on the whereabouts or reasons for the fresh incarceration.
The editor and publisher of the weekly Source newspaper was arrested in 2016 and released last August following campaigns by local and international rights organisations. Abiri underwent two suits before his freedom last year. While a court threw out the case against him for lack of jurisdiction, another ordered the secret police to pay him damages for his illegal detention and violation of rights.
In his reaction, the convener of Concerned Nigerians Group, Prince Deji Adeyanju, said: “We condemn in its entirety the Gestapo manner in which Jones Abiri was re-arrested by suspected men of the DSS.“We condemn the continued ill-treatment and intimidation of Mr. Abiri, who was performing his civic duties of gathering information for the public and holding government accountable.