Nigeria: Al-Mizan Reporters Released Eight Days After Arrest

2 January 2013

Kaduna — Musa Muhammad Awwal and Aliyu Saleh, News Editor and reporter of Al-Mizan, a Kaduna-based vernacular newspaper, were yesterday released by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) in Abuja.

The two journalists were arrested at their respective houses in Kaduna on December 24, last year and their release might not be unconnected with the outcry that trailed their arrest.

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