The International Press Center, Lagos has denounced the growing crackdown on freedom of expression following the continuing molestation of journalists and the Media by security agencies <\/p>\n
In a Press release by The Association of Cross River Online Journalists \u2013 ACROJ dated August 22, 2019 Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief\/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch was criminally whisked away from Lagos to Calabar over recent invitation extended to him by the police command in the state over a publication about the Cross River State Microfinance bank, a matter which both parties agreed to meet on Monday August 26, 2019.<\/p>\n
IPC Director, Lanre Arogundade in a statement condemned the arrest; noting that detaining a reporter for doing their job of informing the public is an abuse of power and human rights violation.<\/p>\n
He also condemned the fact that Jalingo has been held for more than forty \u2013eight hours without been charged to court<\/p>\n
IPC therefore calls for his immediate release while in the alternative he should be charged to court to enable him defend the allegations against him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The International Press Center, Lagos has denounced the growing crackdown on freedom of expression following the continuing molestation of journalists and the Media by security agencies In a Press release by The Association of Cross River Online Journalists \u2013 ACROJ dated August 22, 2019 Agba Jalingo, Editor-in-Chief\/Publisher of CrossRiverWatch was criminally whisked away from Lagos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":108146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50563,50564,50562,50561,44421,22557],"yoast_head":"\n