{"id":54455,"date":"2024-11-01T20:17:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=54455"},"modified":"2024-11-02T05:35:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:35:15","slug":"pressure-mounts-on-tinubu-to-free-detained-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/01\/pressure-mounts-on-tinubu-to-free-detained-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure Mounts on Tinubu to Free Detained Minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is being urged to immediately release 76 individuals, mostly minors, detained for participating in the recent #EndBadGovernance protest.<\/p>\n<p>The detainees, who have reportedly spent over 80 days in police custody, include a 15-year-old boy who collapsed in court before proceedings could begin, causing the judge to suspend the session.<\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Writers Association (HURIWA), through its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko condemned the prolonged detention of the minors, calling it a violation of their fundamental rights and a blight on Nigeria&#8217;s international image.<\/p>\n<p>HURIWA emphasized, \u201cNigeria has been presented as a nation without respect for children&#8217;s rights, despite commitments to abolish torture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group urged President Tinubu, \u201cAs a parent, consider the lasting global disgrace this case brings upon Nigeria. Act swiftly to release, rehabilitate, and support these minors, enabling them to reintegrate into society through education and vocational training.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is being urged to immediately release 76 individuals, mostly minors, detained for participating in the recent #EndBadGovernance protest. The detainees, who have reportedly spent over 80 days in police custody, include a 15-year-old boy who collapsed in court before proceedings could begin, causing the judge to suspend the session. The Human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-54455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54499,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54455\/revisions\/54499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}