Nigerian authorities should drop all charges against journalist Kufre Carter and ensure that the press is not harassed by the country's security forces, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On April 27, in the southern city of Uyo, officers with Nigeria's Department of State Services arrested Carter, a presenter with the privately owned XL 106.9 FM radio station, when he responded to a summons issued the day before, according to Inibehe Effiong, Carter's lawyer, who spoke to CPJ by phone and messaging app, and reports by the privately owned First Reports and Premium Times news websites.
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