{"id":77108,"date":"2025-10-22T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77108"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:21:35","slug":"actionaid-amnesty-condemn-attacks-on-peaceful-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/22\/actionaid-amnesty-condemn-attacks-on-peaceful-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"ActionAid, Amnesty Condemn Attacks on Peaceful Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ActionAid Nigeria and Amnesty International have condemned Monday\u2019s violent attacks on peaceful protesters and civil society members in Abuja and Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint statement, the groups urged the Federal Government to demonstrate its commitment to human rights and protect Nigeria\u2019s civic space.<\/p>\n<p>They cited the incident involving Ms. Yemi Adamolekun of the Enough Is Enough (EiE), movement, who laid flowers in Lagos in memory of #EndSARS victims but was reportedly met with heavy-handed security response.<\/p>\n<p>ActionAid Country Director, Andrew Mamedu, described the attacks as a gross violation of citizens\u2019 rights, while Amnesty\u2019s Isa Sanusi warned that the growing intolerance for peaceful assemblies signals a disturbing decline in civic freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; ActionAid Nigeria and Amnesty International have condemned Monday\u2019s violent attacks on peaceful protesters and civil society members in Abuja and Lagos. In a joint statement, the groups urged the Federal Government to demonstrate its commitment to human rights and protect Nigeria\u2019s civic space. They cited the incident involving Ms. Yemi Adamolekun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77108","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77110,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77108\/revisions\/77110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}