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4 Jun, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Amnesty International condemns the Nigerian government’s suspension of Twitter @Twitter in #Nigeria🇳🇬 — a social media widely used by Nigerians to exercise their human rights, including their rights to freedom of expression and access to information. #TwitterBan
We call on the #Nigerian authorities to immediately reverse the unlawful suspension and other plans to gag the media, repress the civic space, and undermine Nigerians' human rights. #TwitterBan
This action is clearly inconsistent and incompatible with Nigeria's international obligations including under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. #TwitterBan #Nigeria

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THREAD: We have been working on Nigeria since 1967; But 2017 & 2018 are different. On March 20, 2017 a group of ‘sponsored’ protesters barricaded our office & asked us to quit Nigeria within 24 hours:
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