Sahara Reporters

== Recent events ==
The founder and former publisher of Sahara Reporters, [[Omoyele Sowore]] was detained by the Nigerian government led by President [[Muhammadu Buhari]] ostensibly for planning a mass demonstration against the ills of the government.<ref name="bbc" /> The demonstration was characterized by the Nigerian government as an attempt to overthrow it, which was denounced by the [[Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights]] commission, along with many international bodies.

[[Department of State Services ]] (DSS) agents arrested Sahara Reporters founder Omoyele Sowore on August 3, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|first1=Bukola|last1=Adebayo|access-date=September 13, 2021|title=Nigeria faces backlash over the arrest of a US-based activist and journalist|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/africa/nigeria-sowore-arrest-backlash/index.html|date=December 9, 2019|publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> He was charged with treason, cybercrime, and money laundering, including for transfers allegedly made to Sahara Reporters' Nigerian bank account, according to a U.S.-based legal team's submission to the U.N. working group on arbitrary detention. Sowore has been jailed ever since, aside from one overnight release on bail in early December, according to La Keisha Landrum Pierre and media reports.

CPJ has documented Nigerian security forces repeatedly attacking journalists, including those reporting on the August demonstrations or related protests against Sowore's detention. Following the reelection of President Muhammadu Buhari in February, journalists told CPJ they worried that his government would feel less restrained in curbing press freedom.

According to Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, "Over the course of the last 5 months, the Nigerian authorities have subjected journalist and human rights defender, Omoyele Sowore, to unlawful arrests, arbitrary detention and malicious prosecution due to his attempts to exercise his fundamental rights to freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly. The Nigerian authorities, in particular the DSS, have repeatedly violated Mr. Sowore's due process rights and have proceeded to charge him with a number of serious crimes, including cyberstalking, treason and money laundering -- none of which have any basis in law or in fact. As a result, Mr. Sowore is now threatened with a sentence of life in prison. To date, the government has failed to produce a single shred of evidence of any wrongdoing for these extremely serious charges, instead the authorities solely rely on Mr. Sowore's lawful public statements and actions in their attempt to justify his prolonged arbitrary detention and specious prosecution." Mr. Sowore is set to stand trial for these baseless charges on February 11, 2020.

Sowore is a U.S. permanent resident and resides in [[Haworth, New Jersey]], with his wife, Mr Opeyemi Sowore and two children who are all U.S. citizens.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=September 13, 2021|title=The Case of Omoyele Sowore|url=https://rfkhumanrights.org/news/the-case-of-omoyele-sowore|publisher=[[Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights]]}}</ref>
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