Amnesty International has called on the Nigeria authorities to immediately and unconditionally release a 23–year old student of Federal University Dutse, Aminu Adamu Muhammed, who was arrested on 8 November, 2022 at midnight by security operatives suspected to be DSS operatives, over a tweet deemed to be demeaning to the person of the first lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari.
The International Human Rights Watch said it strongly condemned the arrest of Aminu, adding that his family and friends alleged that he was held incommunicado and subjected to severe beating, torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
The group said since his arrest, neither his family nor his lawyers had had access to him.
Amnesty International said there were strong suspicions that Aminu was being held in an unknown location in Abuja by Nigerian security operatives and called on the authorities to release him from unlawful detention and ensure that all those suspected of torture and other violations against him were brought to justice.
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