Personnel of the Department of State Services on Friday morning disrupted the ongoing trial of the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare.
Sahara Reporters reports that the secret police attempted to rearrest the two men, who were only released from its detention on Thursday evening.
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The DSS operatives also chased away the presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, while also brutalising a journalist with a popular television station.
The paper said that there is currently an ongoing standoff inside the court premises as the DSS operatives are refusing to allow Sowore and his lawyers come out of the place.
Happening now at the federal high Court Abuja. DSS want to re-arrest Sowore. We will never give in to Tyranny pic.twitter.com/DJrGay3xHr
— Towolawi Jamiu (@jharmo) December 6, 2019
#RevolutionNow Comrades resist the re-arrest of pro democracy activist Sowore at the Federal High Court Abuja today. pic.twitter.com/mLwTGl5L0S
— Towolawi Jamiu (@jharmo) December 6, 2019
