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    Don’t deny Nigerians right to protest – Amnesty International warns FG over planned protests

    Amnesty International, AI, has warned President Bola Tinubu’s administration against threatening Nigerians planning to protest against the current hardship and hunger in the country.

    The International Human Rights Organization warned that threatening peaceful protesters is unlawful, adding that Nigerians have the constitutional right to protest.

    Nigerians on social media plan to protest in August against Tinubu’s government following the bad economic situation in the country.

    Reacting to the plans, Tinubu’s media aide, Dada Olusegun warned that the intending protesters would meet the strongest resistance of their lives if they opted to protest against the Nigerian government.

    Olusegun warned that those who gave Tinubu the mandate to rule the country would strongly resist the protest.

    Reacting, Amnesty International posted on X:” Threatening peaceful protesters is unlawful. It is a clear attack on freedom of assembly — which is guaranteed by international law and Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution:

    ” Nigerians must not be denied the constitutionally and internationally guaranteed right to peaceful protest; through veiled threats of violence and false insinuations.”

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