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A Nigerian journalist arrested at gunpoint by suspected state agents last weekend was released from intelligence headquarters on Monday afternoon, one of his colleagues..... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2CQHkgi Get More Nigeria Metro News

Four armed men suspected to be operatives of Directorate of Security Services (DSS) on Saturday whisked away a journalist, Jones Abiri, to an disclosed location. Abiri, the publisher of Weekly Source Newspaper, who was incarcerated for two years on charges of terrorism in the past, was …...

Bayelsa-based journalist Jones Abiri has once again been arrested by men of the Department of State Services (DSS). Abiri was arrested at Ayabowei Plaza in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital..... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2FI2iyL Get More Nigeria Metro News

Jones Abiri has spoken about his experience in the State Security Service (SSS) detention describing his two-year incarceration as a terrible experience. In an interview with Premium Times, the journalist claimed he also saw former national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki in detention. He said he...

Recently released journalist, Jones Abiri, has asked a Magistrate court in Abuja to transfer his trial by the Nigerian government to Bayelsa State. Mr Abiri is being tried over allegations that he was linked to armed militancy in the Niger Delta. The federal government had … Read more via...

Abiri After he was arrested, blindfolded and flown to Abuja detention camp of the State Security Services (SSS) without trial and access to medical facilities for two years, Journalist Jones Abiri arrived Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital, yesterday to the warm … Read more via The Guardian...

The Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom has called on the Federal Government to immediately release the publisher of the Yenagoa, Bayelsa State-based Weekly Source newspaper, Jones Abiri. He was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) … Read...

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has filed a fundamental human rights enforcement suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja on behalf of Jones Abiri, a journalist who has been in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSSS) since June 2016, without charge. According to Punch, …...

Jones Abiri, the man arrested by the State Security Services, SSS, without trial, is not a journalist and does not belong to any chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity claimed Thursday night. Mr. Shehu …...